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Kuwait's Communications, Electricity, and Water Minister Jassem Al-Oun was reported Thursday in the Kuwait Times as predicting that "a military confrontation [with Iraq] will ultimately take place which will have devastating effects in the region and tragic consequences for the Iraqi people."
According to the Pan-Arabic weekly Al-Mushahid Assiyasi , prospects for ending the long-running Lockerbie dispute have been boosted by a complicated deal with Saudi Arabia under which Libya will buy $1.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram reports that Arafat is giving new consideration to the prospect of an official Palestinian-Jordanian confederation.
See also DIA analytic report,"Special Analysis: Iraq's Inconclusive Ties to Al-Qaida," July 31, 2002; CIA analytic report,"Old School Ties," Mar.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.