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...University returned a $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan—pledged four years earlier—after it was deemed that a think-tank funded by Zayed promoted an anti-Semetic agenda...
...story "Fund To Spur Public Service" said that a donation received by the Kennedy School came from the foreign minister of Qatar. In fact, the gift, was from H.E. Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al Thani, who established the fund in honor of his late father, Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani. The elder Al-Thani, not his son, served as foreign minister of Qatar...
...lines on a map they barely understood. Bush's feckless invasion had tossed a hand grenade into a house of cards-and now there was the stunning realization that only an exhausted U.S. Army blocked a bloody revision of borders. "We are one people," insisted the Iraqi Communist Mufid al-Jazairi during one session. "We are not Sunni and Shi'a. We are Iraqis." The other delegates exchanged pained glances or looked away...
Senior U.S. officials in Baghdad don't seem too worried that the six-month deadline Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr set for his militia's unilateral cease-fire is about to lapse. "There has been some communication back and forth that appears to indicate that it will continue," said Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. U.S. officials say the cease-fire was a major factor in lowering violence across Iraq, where an ongoing surge of U.S. forces is now focused primarily on fighting Sunni extremists. "I would say it probably caused us about...
Leadership figures from the Mahdi Army have long accused government security forces of being under the sway of SIIC, which is led by Sadr's chief political rival Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Until August, the Mahdi Army and the militia wing of al-Hakim's movement, the Badr Brigade, were engaged in a running struggle for influence in southern Iraq, competing for control of everything from gas stations to sacred shrines. The Karbala incident seemed to shock both sides into cooling tensions. But the recent statements suggest the agreement is unraveling. If so, it could draw U.S. troops back into...