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...reported rift between Zarqawi and local nationalists and Islamists is happening in the safe houses and secret communication channels of the Iraqi insurgency, the rift between al-Qaeda and Hamas has become a matter of public record. It is not yet clear who was responsible for Monday's triple bombing in Dahab, but the Hamas-led Palestinian government instantly condemned "this criminal act which flouts our religion, shakes Palestinian national security and works against Arab interests". Strong stuff, particularly from a government that only last week had labeled a Tel Aviv suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad a "legitimate...
...fund the Palestinian government. But Hamas is not typically prone to do the bidding of others, and could just as easily have remained silent on a bomb attack in Egypt. And viewed against the Hamas reponse to Osama bin Laden's latest tape, it appears to suggest a growing rift between the standard-bearers of Islamist politics in the Palestinian territories and the jihadists-without-borders element who would turn the Palestinian cause into a vehicle for their global campaign against the West...
...controversy that surrounded the event last year. Last spring, Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 established “Senior Gift Plus,” which protested University investment in PetroChina, a company with ties to the Sudanese government. This rift fostered concerns among students about exactly how their donations were being spent, and the campaign registered its lowest participation rate since 1999. This year, however, following Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina and a second oil firm tied to the Sudanese government, Sinopec, campaign planners are confident...
...Andrew Lawson of the University of California, Berkeley, raced into the field, making observations that established the existence of a fault line that parallels the California coast for more than 700 miles. They named the fault the San Andreas, after a jewel-like lake that lay within the rift zone less than 10 miles south of what was then America's largest and richest Western city...
...Healing the Moscow-Beijing Rift...