Al-Ahram Weekly Online   1 - 7 June 2006
Issue No. 797
Region
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Harvest of occupation
The US-led imperial project in Iraq has done everything possible to foment strife and chaos and to lay blame on Iraqis, writes Mohamed Hassan Al-Khalesi
More of the same
A rising death toll, violence in Basra and failure to name the defence and interior portfolios dominated Iraq's political arena this week
Kuwait's turn
Early elections in Kuwait might avert the brewing political crisis in the oil rich Gulf state, writes Sherine Bahaa
Two out of three
Ehud Olmert achieved his goals in Washington -- if not now, then soon, writes Graham Usher
Ramallah rampage
Undercover Israeli troops hold the centre of Ramallah hostage in broad daylight, leaving a trail of injury and death in their wake, witnesses Erica Silverman
Algeria's change of tack
Algerians get a new prime minister, but all eyes remain on 2009 and the next presidential elections, writes Amin Senhaji
An unequal Sudan
The real cost of a failure in Abuja is an all-out civil war, writes Gamal Nkrumah

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