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Just look at the likely winners. The largest political group running in the election, the United Iraqi Alliance (U.I.A.), is a grab bag of parties that have little in common apart from a desire for power and a deep-seated distrust of U.S. motives. Backed by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini...
Some Iraqi politicians speculate that the Shi'ites may even offer the presidency to a prominent Sunni--possibly the incumbent, Ghazi al-Yawer. (Others have suggested that it's the Kurds' turn to get the presidency, making Jalal Talabani the front runner.) Sunni political parties like the Iraqi Islamic Party...
FREED. EIGHT CHINESE MEN, abducted by Islamic militants after traveling to Iraq from their native Fujian province in search of work; in Iraq. In a tape broadcast by Arabic news channel al-Jazeera, a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement threatened to execute the hostages unless Beijing "clarified its...
Three weeks after 9/11 and two days before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Mamdouh Habib was on a bus headed out of the Pakistani town of Quetta when police swooped and arrested him. What, they wanted to know, was an Australian citizen doing in this restricted border zone - a Taliban stronghold...
After 27 years in the public eye, Bernard-Henri Lévy is France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which...