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Sectarian Strife PAKISTAN Gunmen riddled Azam Tariq's car with bullets on the outskirts of Islamabad, killing the firebrand Sunni extremist member of Pakistan's National Assembly, three of his bodyguards and a driver. They left behind few clues, but turned up the heat on a long-simmering sectarian war between the country's majority Sunni community and the minority Shi'as. Thousands of Tariq's Sunni supporters rioted in Jhang, his hometown, and also in the normally placid capital, where they torched cars, ransacked markets and burned down a cinema - killing an employee - while police stood by and watched...
...members have been detained in Indonesia, Sidney Jones, head of the Jakarta office of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, says, "Every time we've done research, we find out more about how extensive it actually is." She believes Jemaah Islamiah has "thousands of followers." But unless internal sectarian strife flares anew or Iraq becomes the kind of rallying point for jihad that Afghanistan was, Indonesia's militant radicals will have to convince potential recruits that attacking Western targets at home is an honorable way to fight the infidel. The Marriott bombing did little for that pitch. The victims were...
...President Bush said the bombing "demonstrates the cruelty and desperation of the enemies of the Iraqi people." It demonstrates something else too: the extraordinary complexity of the challenge facing U.S. troops in Iraq, who must contend with not just violence directed at them but also the possibility of widespread strife among Iraq's various political, ethnic and religious groups...
...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...
French intelligence services thwarted a plot last week to assassinate Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, and the plot's aftermath is roiling the strife-torn west African nation. Scores of Ivorians - including senior members of the country's military and police forces - were arrested last week in the commercial capital, Abidjan, after France said it had apprehended a group preparing to leave Paris to stage a coup against Gbagbo. The band of eight French and Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly - a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion...