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...HERE Friday, Dec. 21, 2001 The Islamic Republic of Iran routinely harasses political dissidents while they're alive, but until now has refrained from punishing them posthumously. Followers of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Shirazi - who died of a stroke last week in the holy city of Qom - have been arrested and imprisoned over the years for supporting the cleric's opposition to the Islamic regime. With Shirazi's death, the saga of state intimidation and years of house arrest seemed over. But special police in camouflage gear stormed the funeral procession, beat pall-bearers and stole the Ayatollah's corpse...
...Arafat, but it won't get him out of his strategic logjam. Israel and the U.S. are keeping up the pressure to crack down on the organization, and Hamas is currently reported to be debating Arafat's demand that it hand over one of its key military leaders for arrest in line with an Israeli demand. The smaller Islamic Jihad organization made a similar statement later on Friday, after earlier vowing to continue suicide attacks inside Israel. The 'truce' call may presage a split within both organizations - Palestinian analysts suspect a significant portion of their suicide squadrons may be tempted...
...Hamas recruit, build bombs, send out suicide missions, when it suits him. Hamas in turn has tolerated the Palestinian Authority in the name of unity, but has always "reserved the right to resist the occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent of suicide bombings nearly undid the Oslo accords. When Hamas militants car-bombed a bus filled with settler schoolchildren in 1998, setting off another crisis with Israel, Arafat put Yassin under house arrest. Both...
...literature professor at Duke University and an Italian political philosopher living under house arrest in Rome would seem to have little in common. But in 2000 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri collaborated to write the most talked-about work of social theory in years. By last summer, Empire, their sprawling best seller, had been translated into four languages, with six more translations in the pipeline...
...been withdrawn. The U.N. peacekeeping force on the ground was essentially impotent to intervene in the clan warfare that had brought the country well over the edge of chaos. The most powerful of the clans was the Habr Gadir, led by Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It became American policy to arrest him and the clan's other leaders and subdue its "militia...