Word: clericalization
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...moved north into Kabardino-Balkaria. Chechen secessionist websites hailed what they called a successful operation by the "Kabardino-Balkaria section of the Caucasus Front," praising it as proof that the strategy introduced by the Chechen insurgency's new leader, Abdul Khalim Sadulayev, was working. The 37-year-old cleric took over after his more moderate predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in March. Since then, the tone and tactics of the conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based...
After the 2002 bombings, Indonesia arrested several foot soldiers of the conspiracy and sentenced a prominent cleric to a short prison term for inspiring the attack. (The CIA caught the plot leader in Thailand in 2003.) Jakarta, however, has not been able to capture two key plotters: Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, among the chief operatives of Jemaah Islamiah, a jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda. The two are also suspects in subsequent attacks in Jakarta, on the Marriott Hotel in 2003 and the Australian embassy a year later, which killed a total of 23. Azahari is allegedly...
...reversal signals the extent to which Irish republicans have turned to politics as the path to pursuing their goal of a united Ireland. ?We are closing the curtain on 700 years of Irish history,? said Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest who had been invited, alongside a Protestant cleric, to witness the decommissioning with de Chastelain...
...have majorities in four provinces, but in only two provinces are those majorities large enough to scuttle the constitution. Despite massive voter registration drives on the part of the Sunnis, to get the numbers needed, they will have to ally themselves with other forces, most likely those of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who commands the loyalty of millions of poor Shi'ites in Baghdad and across the south. Al-Sadr has spoken out against federalism and is involved in a power struggle with the major Shi'ite party backing the constitution. But thus far, he has kept his intentions...
...have less influence than they had before. The Shi'ite parties in the negotiations - Dawa, SCIRI and Badr Organization - dug in their heels so much that President George W. Bush called SCIRI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to ask him for more flexibility. The president failed to convince the cleric. Other accounts say the Americans in the embassy gave up trying to broker deals two days before the parliament accepted the draft...