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...took place in 2005. But in Anbar, where most of the province's majority Sunni population boycotted that vote, political participation for men and women alike is relatively new. "Democracy will be real in Anbar in 2009," says Jubbair Rashid Na'if, another high-ranking tribal leader, whose wife Bushra Hassan Ali al-Feraji is also a candidate on the Tribes of Iraq list. The last election, he says, was "silly." U.S. and election officials say that, out of the 14 Iraqi provinces holding elections, Anbar is expected to see the most dramatic increase in voter participation, compared with...
...Stephen S. Brokaw ’06 of Leverett House, Kate E. Delaney ’06 of Mather House, Jannie S. Tsuei ’06 of Quincy House, and Carrie H. Petri ’06 of Winthrop House. In Eliot House, a run-off election between Bushra W. Taha ’06 and Xi Wang ’06 was held over the weekend after they tied in the initial voting. Results were not yet available last night. —Staff writer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu...
...months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town of al-Fashir, killed 75 Sudanese government soldiers, shot up four military aircraft and kidnapped the air force chief, Major General Ibrahim Bushra. The rebel group claimed that the raid was a protest against both the government's neglect of Darfur and an increasing Arab militancy...
...fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest camps, Abubakar and Bushra, which hosted militants from overseas. But since 9/11 and especially the Bali bombing, the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been cracking down hard on Islamic radicals at home, sending many of them scurrying back to Mindanao and its largely unpoliced coastline. "These are fresh intakes," says a Philippine...
...wanted-criminal Muklis, a former religious teacher from Marawi in central Mindanao who studied Islamic jurisprudence in Pakistan. In 1993, he and al-Ghozi crossed the border into Afghanistan, gaining expertise in explosives and demolitions. After returning to Mindanao, he headed the MILF's Special Operation Group at Camp Bushra. But Muklis always served as a point man for JI within the MILF. According to al-Ghozi's own testimony, Muklis was a principal player in the wave of bomb blasts that tore through Manila on Dec. 30, 2000. Philippine intelligence also reports he was involved in an October...