"Abdel Bari Atwan" is the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, the Arab world's first Huffington Post-style digital news and opinion website. He is the former editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi.

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It's very dangerous. The timing is extremely important. He's sensing that there's a failed state in Sudan and he would like to extend his bases.

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But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.

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He senses Sudan will soon become a failed state that will be dismantled.

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These elections ... will put an end to the era of dictatorship by one party or faction in decision-making in Palestinians political life. They will set the cornerstone for new nationalist institutions based on merit and probity ... and will establish a nation of law.

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We understand when the international media fall into the trap of the Jewish settlers and run live coverage of the evacuation.

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He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and they will answer these raids with actions, not words.

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He is presenting himself not as a terrorist, a bloodsucker, a man who would like to destroy the world - he also has a political agenda, he is using this terrorism for political ends.

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