Fri Sep 11, 2009 15:31 UTC |
Eight years after the ‘9/11’ terror attacks, the outcome of the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ is still inconclusive.
Overall, I have not really changed my view from the blog post I wrote on the seventh anniversary.
Neither ‘the West’ and its allied governments nor al-Qaeda and its offshoots have scored a decisive blow. In any case, as [Read more...]
Tags: 911, Afghanistan, Airlines plot, al-Qaeda, Egypt, eighth anniversary, Iraq, Islamist, Middle East, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, War on Terror
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk, US
Mon Jan 12, 2009 17:50 UTC |
I have been talking about the possibility of an Israeli incursion into Gaza on Business Monitor Online for about a year now, and one of the possibilities I have flagged up was that of Egyptian troops manning a new, de-Hamasified Gaza Strip, to allow Fatah to regain and consolidate control. As I said at the [Read more...]
Tags: Egypt, Gaza, Iran, israel, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood
Posted in: General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk
