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...RELEASED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 46, husband of self-exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto who has been in jail on corruption charges since 1996, to visit his ailing mother for three days; in Karachi. The temporary freedom may be a show of leniency as President Pervez Musharraf's government attempts to deter Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party from allying with Islamic fundamentalists to form a coalition government...
...fundamentalist agenda. In the short term, party officials are expected this week to appoint a replacement leader who will form a new government. Erdogan may not be in office, but he will be in power. "He won't take a back seat," says political analyst Mehmet Ali Birand. Turkey's problem dates back to Kemal Atat?rk, the army officer who founded the republic almost 80 years ago and who imposed stringent laws to keep fundamentalism at bay. Erdogan, 48, is just the latest politician to run afoul of such laws which - in the hands of zealous courts and a secularist...
...clergy; his lawyers hope to have the sentence overturned on appeal. Another prominent pro-reform figure, Abbas Abdi, was also arrested. But there was good news for the reform movement too: the release of the Iran's top political dissident, former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, by Supreme Leader Ayatallah Ali Khamenei. Nouri's an ally of President Mohammed Khatami. Meanwhile, a constitutional crisis loomed after parliament passed a bill to strip the hard-line clerics of some of their powers. The bill must be approved by the Council of Guardians, the body whose powers parliament wants to reduce. BRITAIN Trouble...
...officially unacknowledged CIA missile strike that killed a key al-Qaeda leader on Sunday is a major tactical victory in the U.S. war on terrorism - a war whose rules and terms are quite unlike any America has ever known. Indeed, the assassination by Predator drone of Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi in the wilds of northern Yemen encapsulates much about the new war - one of covert actions, sometimes in murky circumstances, designed to disrupt the terrorists' efforts to regroup far from erstwhile sanctuaries in Afghanistan. And it shows the U.S. is plainly now open to assassination as a means...
...Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in more remote parts of Yemen, where they have taken shelter, and the government's ability to act against them has been limited. Indeed, it is the very weakness of the Yemeni state that makes it such an attractive base for bin Laden...