"Bandar Bush" turns up talking to .......guess who?

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com

...and 5 article summaries at my Journal


//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong Apr 8, 2006

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD08Ak03.html



‘SEARCHING FOR ATTACKERS LURKING IN THE NIGHT’

By M K Bhadrakumar



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Two major powers traditionally active in the region are responding to the Anglo-American drive for a New Middle East - Russia and Turkey.

The Russian moves are impressive - strengthening ties with Saudi Arabia, gaining observer status in the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), revival of ties with Syria and Egypt, contact with Hamas, networking with Iraqi Sunni tribal leaderships, institutional ties with the Arab League, and, arguably, the heavily nuanced line on Iran.

Germane to all this, Moscow perceives a likely replay of past Anglo-American attempts to pit the Muslim world against Russia. Given its history, geography and culture and the multinational and multi-faith character of its society, Russia has everything to lose in an "inter-civilizational" conflict.



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It comes as no surprise that the countries of the Arab Middle East have warmed to the Russian overtures.

Moscow hosted on March 27-28 the first session of the so-called Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group comprising Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt, etc. Putin greeted the foreign delegates attending the conference. Significantly, Yevgeni Primakov, former prime minister and renowned orientalist who played a key role in crafting the Soviet Union's ties with the Arab world through the Cold War years, chaired the Moscow meet.

Again, the head of the Saudi National Security Council, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, paid a "working visit" to Moscow on Tuesday. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the hugely influential Saudi prince's agenda included the Palestine issue, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and "conditions in Iraq", apart from "building up and deepening" Russia-Saudi relations.

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. US under bush just plain stupid

NOw enemy of so many countries
OF course USSR star is rising
bush US helping to make it so

Fuck it will need you guys working like 100 years to undo the damage cause by a bushwhacko admin.
Nice gifts to your future generations

Man bush cant even ride straight on his bicycle without crashing
How you expect him to steer the country without major crashes
Damage wheee so much
Laugh as I would over all his crashes
I can only be sadden by the damage I see being done on the US by his steering of the country
It is fucking worst then an emperor with no clothes
He is a fucking walking disaster.
The sooner everyone see it the better it be for all
Some people are born failure

[acmavm]

2. Born failure. Yep, pretty much says it all. That's why he was so eager

to front for the neocon crazies. He thought it would give him a 'legacy'. A name that went down in history as a big man instead of a chickenshit AWOL coward lying bastard.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Yup A PERFECT SUCKER to do a SUCKERS JOB

He is going to find out the hard way
Put in place to take the fall
While the real crooks stay a distant away

Wonder where all he thinks his friends goes when it all come crashing down
Wonder who he think will people blame as the saying goes "THE BUCK STOP HERE"

But the damage THE DAMAGE
Damn sick

Bush the sucker dont even realise that
he be left in the house alone waiting for the cop after his friends clean out the house they robbing
The PERFECT fall guys without a brain
Me think he is going to create HISTORY
Maybe the only US president to be punish for war crimes
Dont see how that can be avoided.