Al-Wahda [Archives:2003/680/Press Review]

22 Oct.2003
Main headlines:
– Health minister: Cancer threatens public health in Yemen
– Batheb and Anees back home
– Expatriates undersecretary: We enhance international interests and rights of the expatriates
– President of electricity establishment al-Junaid: We work to avoid electric outages during the month of Ramadhan
– Cuban ambassador to Yemen: Yemeni-Cuban relations witness steady development
– Yemen prepares to participate in London tourist exhibition
– Government measures limited violations of fishing companies
Columnist Ahmed Abdraba Alawi says in his article it seems the United States has abandoned all diplomatic values and manners and its foreign policy has become based on many terms: accusations-threatening-war and installation. By our following up of what is going on in the Arab region we perceive that the turn is approaching from Syria. The whole matter is but a short time or days to pass for settling pending things in Iraq and then the atmosphere would be clear and begin the military concentration to begin in the military bases near to Syria and talk begins to be repeated on alleged violations Syria is accused with. Those accusations against Syria are known even from now. The entire question is that the American administration is adopting the strategy worked out by the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon against Syria. The stands taken by the American administration against Syria in the past few days indicate that the orientation of the hawks inside the administration have managed to dictate their viewpoints that are rather identical to Sharon's greed in the region. Nowadays we hear about accusations against Syria of harboring remnants of the Iraqi regime and its possession of chemical weapons, these accusations are a new ill-boding against the Arabs and Muslims. The Syrian people are wondering if they are heading for barbaric attacks launched by the American war machine that does not differ between old, young people or a woman or a child.
We have become now in the age of power not the age of law and international charters and the side that possesses the military superiority guarantees the victory and occupies the country it wants to.
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