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...cleric suggested they be taken to the Americans. The mob was disappointed at being denied a lynching, but in Najaf, nobody disobeys a cleric. At first the soldiers refused to accept the prisoners. As the cleric negotiated with the Americans, the mob began to think again about the "Wahhabis." One man pulled out a pocketknife and headed for the two men, who claimed to have come from Basra to visit the grave of a relative. "Kill the Wahhabis!" the crowd shouted. "Slit their throats!" Finally, the Americans took charge. A group of soldiers quickly bundled the two men into...
...Forgive and Forget? It is high time that the world accept Libya's confession that it was responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pam Am Flight 103, which crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland [Aug. 18-25]. Libya has been isolated and sanctioned for nearly 15 years, and it has already paid enough for this atrocity. Why should innocent Libyans suffer any longer from enormous unemployment, a bad medical situation and a disastrous economy, all of which are results of the sanctions? Michael D?ninger Salzburg, Austria...
...Khin Nyunt is considered pragmatic enough to accept that the country needs to grapple with its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. It was he who helped negotiate Suu Kyi's release 15 months ago from her second stint under house arrest. She was detained again last May and is being held at an undisclosed location...
...organized the attack. But a leader of the outlawed Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) met TIME in Bombay two months ago and spoke plainly of his group's intentions to target the city. "Umar"?a name given to him by TIME?stressed that although his men might accept technical or financial help from fellow militants from Pakistan or elsewhere, the terror campaign in Bombay in recent months was a domestic response by Indian Muslims to years of discrimination at the hands of the Hindu majority and the BJP under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "We started peacefully...
...coaxing him back to the bargaining table. The country is the North's largest benefactor and trading partner, supplying up to two-thirds of its energy needs and nearly 40% of its food imports. Earlier this summer, Beijing showed its leverage by convincing Pyongyang to accept multilateral talks instead of the one-on-one negotiations with the U.S. that the North demanded. In July, China delivered a personal letter to Kim from President Hu Jintao warning him to halt his nuclear program. And on Aug. 20, Beijing quietly sent a senior army general, Xu Caihou, to Pyongyang "to deliver...