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...Industrialists was the only other party to clear the 7% electoral minimum required to have a parliamentary presence. Mounting Crisis SUDAN The U.N. said it would send a fact-finding mission to the western Darfur region after its emergency-relief coordinator in the area told the Security Council that Arab militias are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black Sudanese. MEANWHILE IN BRAZIL ... Vote Enhancement Congressman Antonio Jose de Moraes Souza was ordered to step down by an electoral court that found him guilty of buying votes with Viagra. The court concluded that a doctor arrested at a rally...
...tough town for the U.S. military from Day 1 of the occupation, and clashes in which U.S. troops fired on crowds soon after they arrived there last April appear to have led to a cycle of attacks and crackdowns that have turned Fallujah into the cradle of Sunni Arab nationalist resistance to the U.S. presence in Iraq. In the narrative of these insurgents, the U.S. occupation has brought Iraqis a plight analogous with that of the Palestinians - a link underscored in leaflets distributed Thursday in Fallujah proclaiming the killings an answer to Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed...
...handling Fallujah quickly mushrooms into a larger political dilemma at the heart of the U.S. effort to stabilize Iraq and transfer power to a representative government. British officials have publicly stated what has become conventional wisdom among Coalition officials in Baghdad - that defeating the insurgency requires convincing the Sunni Arabs of their place in the sun under a post-Saddam order. After all, the Sunni Arab minority has always ruled Iraq, before and after the Baathists took power, and support for the insurgency among substantial elements of the community is driven in part by a sense that they will...
...Where once Western democracies would only launch strategic wars when attacked, there is now the leader of the free world defending preemptive war. And where once there was world-wide sympathy for the victims of Sept. 11, there is now the growing anti-American sentiment on the Arab street and beyond...
...Bush administration has been quietly promoting its "Greater Middle East Initiative" in recent weeks, looking to enlist European support for a program to promote reform and democracy in the Arab world. But the most consistent point of criticism from Arab capitals is that the document ignores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. U.S. officials counter by insisting that the unresolved conflict in the Holy Land can't be used as an excuse to delay desperately needed reforms throughout the region. President Bush's European allies, first among them Britain's Tony Blair, have long warned that the Bush administration's failure...