general tension in the region and the feeling that there was a requirement or a need for a new review of the security situation in general in Yemen.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

What we do on the show and real life are different, ... On the show we try to give the impression of what the room should be or could be.

It was in the national security interest, because we depended on the stability in Turkey and the stability in Jordan in order to encircle Saddam Hussein.

Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.