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| IAEA Chief: Arabs don't address security |
| 2004-12-14 |
| DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Arab-Israeli conflict has kept Arabs from addressing other security concerns, including the need to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday. Mohamed ElBaradei head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency told a forum of international leaders that the Middle East must free itself of all weapons of mass destruction. "We only focus on land for peace, we never really look at security," ElBaradei said. "Clearly we need to have a nuclear weapon free zone, clearly we have to rid ourselves of chemical and biological weapons and that has to be, again, part of the security dialogue that should to be parallel to the peace process." ElBaradei said Arab states need to consider such questions as how to deal with neighbors like Iran and whether regional or international alliances or alliances with major powers would better serve their security needs. "The problem is we never really defined, in the Arab world, what is our security threat," he said. Security in the region is undermined by poverty, lack of basic freedoms and violations of human rights, which breeds terrorism and extremism, ElBaradei said. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #7 Flush this guy! |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-12-14 5:50:43 PM |
| #6 What's wrong with this picture: the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says "we never really defined, in the Arab world, what is our security threat." Why is a UN official speaking out in an official capacity on Arab concerns and Arab interests? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-12-14 1:33:23 PM |
| #5 Bingo, dot. Different words for different audiences. I think that was an Arafat trick. |
| Posted by: chicago mike 2004-12-14 1:28:55 PM |
| #4 Note that Elbaradei is in "we" mode - Muslim First - everything else an irrelevant second. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-14 11:04:55 AM |
| #3 "...including the need to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction..." This is just code for the Arabic demands of at least the past year that Israel get rid of its nuclear missiles. The light has started to dawn on some of these buggers that if somebody, *anybody*, throws a ballistic missile at Israel, then much of the Islamic world will shortly thereafter become glass. A swordfight is less fun if your enemy has a sword, too. And no fun at all if they have a gun. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-12-14 11:01:33 AM |
| #2 "The problem is we never really defined, in the Arab world, what is our security threat," he said. Security in the region is undermined by poverty, lack of basic freedoms and violations of human rights, which breeds terrorism and extremism, ElBaradei said. None of which have anything to do with Jews or Israel, yet that is where the Arabs eventually end up when looking for someone/something to blame for their problems. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-14 10:42:14 AM |
| #1 "We only focus on land for peace, we never really look at security," Sadly, the Arabs focus is not on land for peace. Its on genocide of Jews, promulgation of the Wahabism and, above all, complaining. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-12-14 8:50:35 AM |