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Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party...
Last week's police riot quickly spread to five other hotels near the pyramids and many nightclubs and casinos on the broad avenue leading to the ancient monuments. At least two police stations were burned down. Renegade policemen also set free more than 300 of the 5,000 inmates at...
This fall, The Crimson revealed that Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran had entered two contracts with the CIA, one for a conference on Islamic fundamentalism and one for a book about Saudi Arabia. And this spring, Eaton Professor of Government Samuel P. Huntington said he and a...
Even as Hussein was delivering the speech that ended his peace overture, more fighting was going on 100 miles to the northwest. Early last week a Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli...
With its luck holding at Fao, Iran appeared for a time to have maintained its advantage in the prolonged war of attrition. Iran's population of 45 million is nearly three times larger than Iraq's, and its devoutly Islamic clerical leadership seems as willing as ever to absorb massive...