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Under the enlightened leadership of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the Shi'ite majority has played the democracy game with gusto. It has acknowledged the importance of Kurdish and Sunni minority rights and seems unlikely to demand the constitutional imposition of strict Islamic law. Most important, it has resisted the...
The closest thing the kingdom has ever had to an election was when businessmen got together in Riyadh and Jidda and elected boards for local chambers of commerce. By those standards, the elections for 178 municipal councils being held in three stages that began on Feb. 10 are a big...
CONVICTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, by a five-judge panel, in Jakarta. Abubakar was...
CONVICTED. ABU BAKAR BASHIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terrorism group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 attacks in a Bali nightclub that killed 202; by a five-judge panel in Jakarta. At the...
TIME: Now that you've been elected, your progress depends on your cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Islamist groups opposing peace. How secure is it ?