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...disclose how many. He bears a name revered by Shi'ites all over the world: al-Sadr's father and uncle were influential and popular ayatullahs murdered by Saddam's regime. Muqtada was a virtual unknown in Iraq until the U.S. invasion, after which he began building his power base through often ruthless means: his supporters were blamed for the April 2003 assassination in Najaf of an influential pro-Western ayatullah. (The U.S. initially fingered al-Sadr for the murder, then quietly let the matter drop. Al-Sadr has denied any involvement in the murder...
...Sadr does have one potential trump card: his strident anti-Americanism has helped him broaden his support base, so that many Iraqi Sunnis regard him as the only Shi'ite leader they can trust. Sunni groups contributed men and material to support the Mahdi Army's uprisings against U.S. forces, and elements of the Mahdi Army fought alongside Sunni insurgents in the battle of Fallujah in fall 2004. "He is somebody who has fought against the occupying forces," says Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, the leading Sunni clerical body. "All other Shi'ite leaders...
...game, or whether it be the failure to promote its biggest events or even directly communicate to students that tickets would be necessary to gain entrance into Lavietes for Penn-Princeton weekend, the Harvard basketball program makes little attempt to sell itself to the students and cultivate a fan base...
...It’s definitely been a good investment,” Mowery said of the enterprise. Souther and Mowery designed the t-shirt as a tribute to the University president at the time of the first Faculty no-confidence vote this past March. The two entrepreneurs decided to base their design on the famous red and black poster of Guevara—seemingly equating the pro-free-market Summers with the Cuban communist revolutionary. “We view Larry Summers as a revolutionary in his own right,” Mowery said. “He wanted...
...news that Mladic was captured and flown to the Netherlands via a US Air Force base in Bosnia was first launched on Tuesday afternoon by a folksy local television station in the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina. Soon it was picked up by several media outlets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and then by major international news agencies and cable television news. The ensuing media frenzy lasted for days despite strong denials of the Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic...