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...With human-rights groups expressing outrage at the crackdown, the protesters smell victory and are in no mood to compromise, even if the King were to extend an olive branch. "It's time we consider republicanism the core issue of our movement," declared protest leader Gagan Thapa. And so the violent confrontations seem destined to continue. Increasingly, the question is not whether Nepal is becoming a failed state. Rather, it is just how grim that failure might...
...weakens the position of all the guards for their to be fewer unionized workers. And it weakens campus unions at Harvard as a whole,” said Mackinnon, who participated in last summer’s protest to protect security guard jobs from outsourcing...
...moderate and influential Shiite leaders such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani hedge their bets in response to Moqtada's challenge - calling on Shiites to refrain from violence but at the same time expressing sympathy for their grievances and condemning Coalition actions - many Shiites loyal to Sistani have nonetheless joined protest actions led by the Sadrists. The danger is that the cost in casualties and strife of suppressing Moqtada's intifada and the Sunni insurgency could deepen anti-American feeling among neutral elements in the Sunni and Shiite communities that have not supported violence...
...cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The new uprising would not be tolerated and would be suppressed, warned U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Monday. Hours later, the Coalition announced an arrest warrant had been issued for Sadr. But the cleric had already told his supporters that the time for peaceful protest had passed, urging them to "terrorize" the Americans and their allies...
...supporters to rise up and seize control of their neighborhoods. Much of the weekend's violence came in clashes between Coalition troops and Sadr supporters who have occupied police stations and local council offices. Rather than hit-and-run attacks, the Sadrists have taken to the streets, combining mass protest with gunplay in scenes reminiscent of the opening weeks of the Palestinian intifada in the Fall of 2000. That association is far from coincidental - Moqtada has sought to stir up Shiite passions by likening the plight of Iraqis under occupation to that of the Palestinians, and he recently vowed...