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...Civil Aviation Minister Abdul Rahman, who was murdered at the Kabul airport two weeks ago. Though Karzai presides, it is apparent that while he possesses the ceremonial trappings of his office--a presidential guard and an off-tune military band--the real power lies elsewhere. Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Interior Minister Younus Qanooni both arrive for memorial prayers with a retinue of armed warriors. The assorted dignitaries remove their shoes to enter the local mosque. Karzai later notes with black humor that a Cabinet member's shoes were stolen. It's a tough crowd...
...citizens in four years. Even if that happens, growing numbers of Israel's Arab citizens will be in an anomalous position: as long as the Palestinian problem is unresolved, their own country will be at war with them. In this case, says Ibrahim Sarsur, the Islamicist mayor of Kfar Qasim, "the circle of bloodshed will not be broken." If more Arab Israelis take up the battle for Islamic supremacy even in the land of the Jews, the prospects are grimmer still...
...steel gate in front of the stucco house in the Iraqi city of Najaf swings open and a bearded man appears, flanked by two armed policemen. "Go away -- please," says the middle-aged son of Ayatullah Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei, spiritual leader of the world's Shi'ite Muslims. The son trembles and speaks in whispers. Had not other journalists spoken to the Ayatullah? "Yes, and after they left the police came -- and it was worse," he says. "Please go away, and don't come back. Ten of our family and dozens of my father's followers...
...history offers some hope that Iraq will back down peacefully. The last Iraqi leader to threaten Kuwait, General Abdul Karim Qasim, found himself isolated internationally with mounting economic problems at home. By 1963, less than two years after laying claim to Kuwait, Qasim had been deposed and assassinated, and his successor had recinded Iraq's assertion of sovereignty over Kuwait. All without a shot being fired in the Gulf...
Miserable little Qatar (pop. 35,000), a sun-seared knuckle of sand and stone jutting into the Persian Gulf, was a latecomer in the Middle East oil boom. But when oil poured out in 1949 and the gold started pouring in, wizened old (69) Sheik Ali bin Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani had no trouble adjusting his spending habits to those of the other sheiks of Araby...