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Syria Lifts Emergency Law: SANA
The Daily Star
The Syrian Cabinet passed Tuesday a draft law lifting the country’s 48-year-old emergency law, the official Syrian News Agency said.
A United Nations statement issued late Saturday said it expected an Iraqi government inquiry into the Iraqi military's deadly April 8 raid on a People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) camp to be independent.
Many have expressed concern that the removal of Yemen’s strongman would unleash anarchic competition between the powerful tribes, secessionists and religious fundamentalists who have thrived in this impoverished but strategically important country.
Those fears are amplified by the nation’s reputation for militancy and the colourful preponderance of ceremonial daggers and AK47s. Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, voiced these anxieties last month by saying the collapse of Saleh’s government would be “a real problem” for the US.
Yet such views overlook the crucial fact that – unlike many of its fellow Arab states gripped by revolution this year – Yemen has a long history of managing competition between different power centres through negotiation and compromise.
Syria Lifts Emergency Law: SANA
The Daily Star
The Syrian Cabinet passed Tuesday a draft law lifting the country’s 48-year-old emergency law, the official Syrian News Agency said.
The agency reported that the Syrian government also abolished the state security court, which handled the trials of political prisoners and approved a new law allowing the right to peaceful protests.
Resurgent Salafist movement troubles secular Egyptians
Linda S. Heard writes: It even looks down upon Brotherhood as insufficiently devout and for watering down its beliefs to suit a political agenda
In recent weeks, Egyptians have become alarmed by the rise of an ultra-religious, anti-Western Salafist group the Jama'a Al Islamiya that makes the Muslim Brotherhood look like a free-thinking, tolerant organisation by comparison.
Salafists look down upon members of the Brotherhood as insufficiently devout and for watering down their beliefs to suit a political agenda. According to newspaper reports, they enjoy a substantial following outside urban areas and have been busy since Mubarak's ouster destroying shops selling alcohol and defacing Sufi shrines. Their foremost goal is to transform Egypt into an Islamic state run on Sharia law and the world into an Islamic caliphate.
UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group
By Jane Arraf
Comment: Yemenis can counter chaos
By Abigail Fielding-Smith
Those fears are amplified by the nation’s reputation for militancy and the colourful preponderance of ceremonial daggers and AK47s. Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, voiced these anxieties last month by saying the collapse of Saleh’s government would be “a real problem” for the US.
Yet such views overlook the crucial fact that – unlike many of its fellow Arab states gripped by revolution this year – Yemen has a long history of managing competition between different power centres through negotiation and compromise.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/18/special_relationship
Specia Relationship
Exclusive new cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N.
BY COLUM LYNCH
The new documents, though consistent with public U.S. statements at the time opposing a U.N. investigation into Israeli military operations, reveal in extraordinary detail how America wields its power behind closed doors at the United Nations. They also demonstrate how the United States and Israel were granted privileged access to highly sensitive internal U.N. deliberations on an "independent" U.N. board of inquiry into the Gaza war, raising questions about the independence of the process.
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