Word: broker
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...surely, Iraq is becoming a Shi'ite theocracy like that of Iran. There is absolutely nothing the U.S. can do about it. That change is due in part to the ever growing influence of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to whom the Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by the shortsighted actions of a U.S. President bent on making war. Bastian Birkenhaeger Friedrichsdorf, Germany...
...Orthodox Church in Africa; with 16 others when their helicopter crashed on the way to Mount Athos, a community of monasteries in northeastern Greece; in the Aegean Sea. Since becoming Patriarch in 1997, Petros helped revive interest in the church, expanding its missions and influence and acting as peace broker between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and paternal driving force behind the Ramones, the rock band that defined the 1970s punk movement; of prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Born John Cummings in suburban New York, he and three other teens...
...others when their helicopter crashed on the way to a community of monasteries in northeastern Greece; in the Aegean Sea. Since becoming Patriarch in 1997, Petros had helped revive flagging interest in Europe's oldest established church, greatly expanding its missions and influence and acting as a peace broker between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa...
...surely, Iraq is becoming a Shi'ite theocracy like that of Iran. There is absolutely nothing the U.S. can do about it. That change is due in part to the ever growing influence of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to whom the Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by the shortsighted actions of a U.S. President bent on making war. Bastian Birkenhaeger Friedrichsdorf, Germany...
...surely, Iraq is becoming a Shi'ite theocracy like that of Iran. There is absolutely nothing the U.S. can do about it. This change is due in part to the ever growing influence of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to whom the Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by America's shortsighted actions. BASTIAN BIRKENHAEGER Friedrichsdorf, Germany...