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...loss was Ko’s first of the dual-match season, and she fell to 4-1 in singles play this year. In September, Ko easily beat Zoricic 6-2, 6-2 at the William & Mary Fall Invitational. In the No. 2 position, No. 70 Ragini Acharya defeated Harvard freshman Camille Jania in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1. Jania filled the No. 2 position for Peterzan, who was out of action due to a stomach illness. In the No. 3 through No. 5 positions, the Crimson was unable to win a single set, as Rosekrans...
Others say the group may be connected to another insurgency that has been brewing in the Philippines for decades. Arabinda Acharya, a Philippines expert with the Singapore-based International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, says al-Khobar may actually be affiliated with the New People's Army, Communist insurgents who have fought a long-running guerrilla campaign against the government parallel to the MILF's. By staging attacks in Mindanao, Acharya says, the NPA may be trying to force the government to fight a two-front insurgency. "This particular group is the criminal arm of the NPA," Acharya...
...Mindanao continues to spiral towards all-out war, Acharya says, terrorist attacks by more splinter factions are likely to increase, since the rogue MILF commanders directing the violence are also those closest linked to foreign jihadis and Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda-financed terrorist group that has carried out dozens of kidnappings and large-scale terrorist attacks, including the 2004 bombing of a Manila ferry that killed 116. Worsening chaos in Mindanao could embolden the most violent and radical elements in this protean coalition to export their jihad beyond the troubled island. "I will not be surprised by that...
...Tarai where over 40% of Nepal's population lives. A cocktail of anarchist elements, militant factions and a growing separatist movement hold sway there and prove a daunting challenge with elections coming in little more than two months. "What happened in Kenya could happen here," says Jayaraj Acharya, a former Nepalese ambassador to the U.N., speaking of the ongoing ethnic conflict in the African nation triggered by disputed elections, which has claimed hundreds of lives. "Only here," Acharya adds, "it will be worse...
...they'll remain disappointed as long as the interim government's leaders fail to forge any meaningful political unity. "It's a testing time for them," says Acharya, the former ambassador to the U.N. "One wonders if they'll prove their statesmanship." The only indication that they will, most observers drily point out, is that neither the Maoists nor the Congress Party have any better alternative other than sorting out their differences and calming the many fractious forces that might undermine April's polls...