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...arrests of more than 30 Muslim militants and key players in the network of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI). But Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. If Megawati does not move cautiously, she risks alienating Muslim voters or being branded a U.S. lackey. Although JI has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.N., Megawati has been reluctant to follow suit...
...million. So far they have been frugal, says Mehlman, striking good cash-up-front deals with vendors. Indeed, the cash-rich Bush-Cheney campaign got plenty of national media last week for hardly spending any money at all. They put up an Internet ad attacking Kerry as an "unprincipled" lackey of special interests. The ad was e-mailed to 6 million supporters...
...lending them the fig leaf of international legitimacy. Blair, for one, appears to be sincere in his conviction that pre-emptive action is the only way to stamp out the threat of international terrorism. Nevertheless, the belief that Britain is acting as nothing more than America’s lackey in a blinkered and immoral international misadventure is extremely common across the Atlantic...
That loyalty, however, is being tested. By going moderate, Musharraf has alienated many of his former supporters and fomented the bitter sense that he is merely America's lackey. Just listen to an active member of Jaish-e-Muhammad, an extremist group implicated in attacks in India-controlled Kashmir. "Musharraf has crossed all limits," he says, insisting on anonymity. "There will be more suicide attacks. We are ready to sacrifice our lives." Pakistan police say groups like Jaish-e-Muhammad, which possibly have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, want Musharraf's whole Yankee-loving crowd eliminated. Such...
...country not only can stay out but should. The populist Swiss People's Party (SVP), a longtime proponent of isolationism that has a strong following in some rural areas, argues that U.N. membership would jeopardize Switzerland's cherished neutrality, sovereignty and democracy and turn it into a lackey of bigger, more powerful nations. As a member state, the party warns, Switzerland could be forced by the Security Council to take part in international sanctions and military actions. "We would also lose the right to have our own foreign policy and diplomatic relations," says Ulrich Schlüer, an SVP parliamentarian...