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Barreiro and his mutineers were only part of the challenge to Alfonsin. The rebellion spread to Campo de Mayo, the big army base outside Buenos Aires. At week's end some 100 officers were still holding out while 1,000 government soldiers ringed the base. The display of support reflected the anger that has smoldered in military circles since 1985, when civilian judges convicted and sentenced five military leaders, including two former Presidents, for atrocities committed from...
...constitution is more about limiting the influence of Iran rather than hard opposition to the principle of Iraqi federalism, while SCIRI and Badr are packed with Iranian sympathizers who are actively doing Tehran's bidding in Iraq. But there is an economic issue, too. Al-Sadr's base is primarily in Baghdad, and his people in the capital could be cut off from significant oil revenues and patronage if federal regions, such as the one proposed in the south by al-Hakim, have more control over the nation's petrodollars. Last week's clashes between al-Sadr's Mahdi Army...
...disaster could provide fuel for efforts by Sunni opponents of the proposed constitution to court Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite cleric who has twice led armed uprisings against U.S. troops. The base of his support is in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, home to one-third of Baghdad's population. If al-Sadr called on his poor Shi'ite followers to join Sunnis in opposing the charter, it is likely it would be defeated. Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, a hard-line Sunni group, claims al-Sadr is working...
...until a replacement is confirmed, Bush will have a full court this fall. What's more, at a time when his popularity is at its lowest point and he's getting hammered for the federal response to Katrina, Roberts gives Republicans something to cheer about. It rallies an uncertain base...
...normal times that would be enough for the day. But by 8:30 a.m. Bush had left from Andrews Air Force Base for his second trip to the disaster zone. It was better than his first on Friday. He didn't offer any untenable defenses of the federal response and he didn't say anything too off key like he did last time when he vowed to rebuild Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's home and fondly recalled his partying days in New Orleans. Bush visited victims of Katrina at a shelter near Baton Rouge, where he was joined...