Al-Ahram Weekly Online   5 - 11 December 2002
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Planning post-Saddam
In hope of becoming Iraq's new leaders, key Iraqi opposition groups are meeting next week in London to map a strategy for post-Saddam Iraq, writes Salah Hemeid

Sizing up the damage
A new report on the humanitarian consequences of war in Iraq paints a grim picture, reports Nyier Abdou

One day at a time
Jordan is caught between Israel's long-term designs for Palestine and America's ambitions in Iraq. Michael Jansen reports from Amman Nazareth

Enough is enough
The Arabs have long given the United States the benefit of doubt with respect to policy on the region, but their patience is running out. Recent attacks on Americans in the region appear an indication of things to come, argues Ghassan Mekahal

The real threat?
While Jordanian Islamists working in electoral politics appear to be a powerful force, Galal Nassar, in Amman, wonders whether the kingdom's more violent Islamist trend is as formidable as security agencies claim


Terror talk

As the explosion targeting Israeli tourists in Mombasa agitates Israeli vengefulness, Israel's rhetoric becomes closer to Bin Laden's, writes Jonathan Cook from

Close call in Kenya
Attacks in Kenya on an Israeli airliner and an Israeli-owned hotel focus attention once again on the African link in the United States-led war against terror, writes Gamal Nkrumah

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