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arrested in the raids and later released without charge. Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness, claimed he didn't know the man. Minutes later, they were shown on TV chatting together at an election event. After years of nurturing Northern Ireland 's peace process by ignoring I.R.A. activity on...
YOUR COVER IMAGERY, THE CHRISTIAN cross in front of the Stars and Stripes, was chilling. Since the beginning of the disastrous Bush presidency, we have been inundated with an aggressive brand of Christian religiosity from leaders whose intolerance rivals anything we have heard from the Islamic zealots in the Middle...
The frontrunner for the key position of Prime Minister is currently Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leader of the Shiite Islamist Dawa party. Jaafari is the favorite to win the nomination of the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance list, assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. His key rival...
Jaafari is a ?Shiite modernist,? according to an AFP profile carried in the Tehran Times. He has signaled a moderate Islamist position on questions of religion and the state, advocating that Islam be constitutionally recognized as Iraq's official religion and a source (but not the sole source) of legislation...
Jaafari has made clear his intention to draw Sunni representatives into government at the highest level - although it remains to be determined exactly which Sunnis, and how they might be drawn in. Until now, the most prominent Sunni representative in government has been acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, whose party...