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Stories from 2002-06-18

Analysis: 'Rogue' No More – US Eyes Oil in Libya, Sudan

Franz Schurmann | Pacific News Service | June 18, 2002

"With both oil-rich Central Asia and the Middle East riddled by conflict and U.S. voters' continued distaste for new domestic oil exploitation, Washington is getting serious about changing policy toward Africa." [more]

Analysis: Hamas History Tied to Israel

Richard Sale | United Press International | June 18, 2002

"According to ICT papers, Hamas was legally registered in Israel in 1978 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement's spiritual leader, as an Islamic Association by the name Al-Mujamma al Islami, which widened its base of supporters and sympathizers by religious propaganda and social work." [more]

Key Figure in Sept. 11 Plot Held in Secret Detention in Syria

Peter Finn | Washington Post | June 18, 2002

"The debriefing is an extraordinary example of the way Sept. 11 has redefined U.S. engagement with regimes it once vilified. Syria remains on a State Department list of regimes that sponsor terrorism." [more]

US Threatens UN Peacekeeping Over New Court

Evelyn Leopold | Reuters | June 18, 2002

"A U.S. official said if American personnel were not protected there would 'no longer be U.S. peacekeepers.' No one in the 15-member council agreed with the American stance on the court, the world's first permanent tribunal to try the most heinous crimes ó genocide, war crimes and systematic, gross human rights abuses." [more]

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