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...that catapulted Karzai to power and burnished his celebrity abroad--his flair, openness and old-world gentility--now seem to be exactly the wrong traits for a leader of a developing country at war with itself. "He brought a new face to Afghanistan by being nice to everybody," says Ahmad Nader Nadery, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. "But as the challenges have multiplied, he's revealed weaknesses that we never could have expected." Jan Mohammed, an adviser to Karzai and former provincial governor, is more blunt. "Kindness will not help him. If Karzai does not get stronger...
...wrong now in creating the bogey of radical Islam. The problem is closer to home. The imperial hubris of the U.S. and its support of Israel contribute to the mess in the Middle East. One wonders if the people of Israel will benefit in the long run. Ijaz Ahmad Khan Rawalpindi, Pakistan In his counterpoint on the Middle East conflict, Krauthammer explains that Hamas wants to recover any lands Muslims have conquered by force because those lands belong to them forever, in keeping with an Islamic precept. Are Americans really any different? Don't they want to keep forever those...
...have been behind the 2004 assassination attempt of President Pervez Musharraf and several other terror attacks. Azhar founded the group after he was released from an Indian prison in December 1999 in exchange for 155 passengers from a hijacked Indian airliner. Another prisoner released at the same time was Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a militant close to Jaish-e-Muhammad who was subsequently convicted of abducting U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and sentencing him to death. At a rally in Karachi in January 2000 Azhar exhorted the crowd that "Muslims should not rest in peace until we have destroyed America...
With the addition of a prisoner exchange, the Lebanese government--including its Hizballah ministers--backs these ideas. "There is total unity [in the Cabinet] about a cease-fire and a package deal," Lebanon's Interior Minister, Ahmad Fatfat, told TIME. That position was confirmed to TIME by sources speaking for Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who is in hiding to avoid Israeli assassination...
...family out on the first day of the strikes, but I stayed. I thought it was wrong to leave because if we all left, it would be like surrendering to Israel." --AHMAD HAMMOUD, 40, taxi driver and Dahiya resident...