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...Civilians have always done most of the dying in Aceh's conflict, which has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 1976. And they are likely to suffer a lot more, since the years have not diminished Jakarta's apparent conviction that the Aceh issue calls for a military solution, not a political one. Nor, after a five-month pause, have the rebels lost their taste for battle. Invited by Libyan-trained GAM commander Darwis Jeunib to a remote village in Biruen district in the north, I see a few dozen of some 1,000 soldiers he claims to lead...
Relief workers say the problem is far worse in Iraq than it was in Afghanistan because the Iraqis sited military installations--primary targets for U.S. bombs--near civilian centers. Karbala is typical. At al-Hussein hospital, 35 bodies have been brought in since the city fell April 6, many dismembered by a cluster-bomblet blast, according to chief surgeon Ali Iziz Ali. An additional 50 have been treated for fractures and deep, narrow puncture wounds, typical of the weapons. Karbala civil-defense chief Abdul Kareem Mussan says his men are harvesting about 1,000 cluster bombs a day in places...
...Appointed. L. Paul Bremer III, 61, veteran U.S. diplomat and State Department counter-terrorism expert; as the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq; in Washington, D.C. Bremer, who will try to cobble together a new government for Iraq, outranks Jay Garner, the Pentagon-appointed administrator. Announcing his appointment, President George W. Bush described Bremer as a "can-do" person...
This will be the final battle." so predicts a civilian member of the Acehnese negotiating team that tried for months to reach an agreement that would prevent all-out warfare in Indonesia's westernmost province. He doesn't want his name published because he fears reprisals against his family, particularly because he believes that there is virtually no chance the two sides?the Indonesian military and the separatist guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)?can reach a compromise to prevent renewed fighting. Indonesian troops are already flooding into Aceh. Ultimately, some 50,000 are expected in the province, poised...
...which still abound in Pakistan, as well as from religious parties and some of his own officers. Pakistani officials also argue that Musharraf doesn't exert full control over the wilder extremists roaming Kashmir, such as Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, which are widely blamed for terrible civilian atrocities. Even without support from Pakistan, though, the militants could wreak havoc. One jihadi in Muzaffarabad says that the guerrillas have stashed huge supplies of weapons inside Indian-held Kashmir and that they could press on with their war long enough to provoke the Indians into breaking off peace talks...