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...those circumstances, and with the army as one of the only state institutions still functioning, the generals - who imposed temporary military rule on Jos - can begin to look like Nigeria's last hope. Tanko Abubakar Yakassai, a former special assistant to Shehu Shagari, President between 1979 and 1983, warned: "People have to be very careful with their utterances not to overheat the polity and create the opportunity for some crazy people in the military to take advantage." But Lai Mohammed, spokesman of the main opposition party, Action Congress, told TIME that while "we must never wish for a coup...
...member of an upper-crust Nigerian family apparently seek to become an international terrorist linked to al-Qaeda? "It is not shocking and it is not surprising," says Shehu Sani, a human-rights activist and expert on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. "There exists a socioeconomic and political atmosphere in the north [of Nigeria] that has created such kinds of conditions for these kinds of things." Sani says the phenomenon can be traced back five years to the country's northeast, when a group of young Muslims from a wealthy background launched what became known as Nigeria's Taliban movement...
...barred from standing by the electoral commission, which cited his indictment for corruption. Abubakar has challenged the ban in the Supreme Court and continued to campaign as a candidate. But the leading challenger to the PDP is now Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who organized a coup against President Shehu Shagari in 1983 and lost the 2003 election to Obasanjo...
...unplanned stop after passing through Serb security forces guarding a nearby Serb refugee camp. Friendly Kosovar guides usher the diplomats through alleys to a walled compound, where they take off their shoes to enter a Muslim home. Holbrooke, his jacket off and his tie loosened, is introduced to Gani Shehu, 31, who identifies himself as Rugova's party leader in the village. K.L.A. "morale officer" Lum Haxhiu, 40, fondles a European assault rifle as he tells Holbrooke he was formerly a poet in Denmark. Outside, a bearded guerrilla puffing a Marlboro stands watch decked out in a black Ninja suit...
...sits down on a rug and Haxhiu plops next to him so that photographers can snap the first photo of a high-ranking U.S. official with a K.L.A. fighter. Holbrooke is furious that Haxhiu sits through the meeting with his assault rifle propped between his legs. Sipping Turkish coffee, Shehu reports that Serb attacks have reduced the population from 12,000 to 2,000, and the village remains under Serb mortar fire. He brushes aside Holbrooke's plea for a cease-fire and says the guerrillas will fight until Kosovo wins independence, or until death. "It reminds me of Bosnia...