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...violence erupted early last month when 32-year-old Sunni police trainee constable Akbar Niazi wired himself with explosives and blew up the Haideri mosque, killing himself and more than 24 Shi'ites. Next to die was radical Sunni Muslim cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, who was gunned down on May 30 while driving to his Binori Town mosque and seminary. The following day, a suicide bomber set off a blast that shattered the dome of the Shi'ite Ali Reza mosque, killing...
...enrichment centrifuge capable of producing weapons-grade material. U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton accused Iran of unlawfully continuing its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a charge that Iran denies. Cleaning Up INDONESIA Drawing fire from anticorruption campaigners, the Supreme Court quashed a corruption conviction against parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung, clearing the way for the head of the Golkar Party - the country's second largest - to enter the presidential race. Tandjung was handed a three-year jail term in 2002 after being found guilty of embezzling $4.5 million in state funds. Up in Arms SOUTH KOREA The National Assembly...
...collective punishment. As U.S. forces employ more aggressive tactics to take on the resistance, these grievances are only getting worse, setting back the effort to win over local hearts and minds. "Before the Americans came, we heard a lot about their respect for human rights," says Khalid Mustafa Akbar, at a mourning tent for his three brothers who were shot dead while driving their pickup by a U.S. patrol outside Tikrit last week. "But then we found it is only talk...
...bombing. The CD also features a bone-chilling cell-phone call that two of the terrorists apparently made from a car as they launched their May attack. It lasts 7 min. 21 sec. and closes with bursts of gunfire, remote screams of alarm and shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" This is propaganda, and it's aimed at die-hard followers of bin Laden. Jacquard believes the group wants to provoke a bloody war between its core supporters and Saudi authorities--much like the conflict in Algeria that has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past decade. "As in Algeria...
...worried that the deal merely delays, not derails, an eventual confrontation. At the end of last week, Tehran delivered to the IAEA in Vienna a thick, indexed binder containing its "full" declaration detailing the hows and whys of its suspect behavior. The Iranian ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, told TIME the report admitted "mistakes" that resulted not from attempts to build weapons but from ignorance of IAEA requirements and a desire to be "discreet" because of the threat of U.S. sanctions. More troubling, he said, the document does not resolve a key issue: how the centrifuges were contaminated...