Al-Ahram Weekly Online   17 - 23 April 2003
Issue No. 634
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What happened in Baghdad?
Ibrahim Nafie ponders what happened in Baghdad

Israel: the ultimate winner
Saleh Abdel-Jawwad examines, why Israel wanted the war against Iraq

Iraq without a state
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed considers the implications of the breakdown of the Iraqi state

Wonders unending
Many questions remain about the sudden fall of Saddam Hussein, writes Mohamed Hakki. Equally puzzling, however, are many of the actions the US is taking in the post-war country

A triangle of hope
The Arabs have been distracted, but they should not lose heart. Mustafa El-Feki proposes action on three fronts

When statues are toppled
Illusions have no place in mobilising for political action, Azmi Bishara argues

Cartoon by Gomaa

This week:
SADDAM HUSSEIN

Editorial:
Beyond symbols and analogies
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was wrong when he likened the fall of Baghdad to that of the Berlin Wall...

Close up
Iraq's roadmap
While Arab states have yet to adopt a clear position on the role of the UN in post- war Iraq, the US appears to be moving ahead quickly with its own plans for the country...
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
The 'deal'
The Arab media fooled the Arab people, leading them to believe that the US-British invasion of Iraq would face stiff popular and military resistance...
By Salah Eissa

Looting in Iraq
The looting that has been taking place in Baghdad and in some other Iraqi cities owes less to the Iraqi people's failure to act honourably than to the situation in which their invaders have put them...
By Naguib Mahfouz

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