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...Zalmay Khalilzad suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party in the Shi'ite alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadr Seeks Iraq National Unity—Against U.S. | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...Flying on to Riyadh Wednesday, Rice plans to deliver the same message to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faysal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. She is gratified that Saudi leaders, like the Egyptians, have lectured Hamas sternly on their obligations to the peace process. But she wants Saudi Arabia to withhold official foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas complies. There's also the separate matter of funding for Hamas. Saudi Arabia stopped funding Hamas through government channels several years ago, but U.S. officials believe the terrorist organization is still receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi's Message for the Middle East | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

...heart of the negotiations will be a bright-line test: Who will control the Interior Ministry, now in the hands of Shi'ite religious extremists with close ties to Iran, who have murdered and tortured thousands of Sunnis? Even the Shi'ite leadership-in the person of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (sciri)-has acknowledged the excesses. "We call upon our faithful security forces," al-Hakim said last week, "to continue strongly confronting terrorists but with more consideration to human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Someone Please Lend This Guy a Hand? | 2/11/2006 | See Source »

...Khabab al-Masri, a top al-Qaeda bombmaker, died in the strike. The U.S. is still uncertain if DNA was recovered from the scene to allow experts to positively identify any terrorists killed there or how the IDs were made. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told TIME late last week that so far investigators have recovered only bodies of civilians, "but our security forces are there in large numbers to get the facts. These things just cannot evaporate and disappear, if there is anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bin Laden Be Caught? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...terrorists and to make arrests.He stepped up construction of a controversial barrier, started by Barak, that cut through the West Bank and walled out the Palestinians. In 2004, Sharon ordered the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and, later, another of the group's leaders, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, steps that previously had been considered too provocative. And he got results; the intifadeh never recovered its early strength, and Israelis regained their sense of security. Sharon succeeded at what many security experts said was impossible: he found a military solution to terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely Warrior | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

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