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...Korean Peninsula; in Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
That left everyone bracing to see whether battle would resume. But the pause was an acknowledgment of how much was at risk for all sides. The uprising poses a grave challenge to the seven-week-old interim government, which has yet to establish popular legitimacy or law and order amid the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. Allawi had set himself up as a tough guy ready to impose draconian measures to quell the country's relentless violence. Yet taking the fight all the way to the golden-domed Imam Ali shrine, where al-Sadr's men were dug in, could...
...advantage. Although the latest pause in the military effort to dislodge Sadr and his men from the shrine may grate at the morale of the U.S. troops gearing up to do the job, Allawi may have had little choice. The national conference is critical to his own efforts to establish a popular base for his government, and on Saturday it became plain that there was little support among delegates for his action against Sadr. If the delegates wanted another crack at mediating a compromise in Najaf, then the prime minister was obliged to give them the opportunity - even if simply...
...dust has not yet settled in Najaf, and the offensive may be resumed at any moment. But the delicate balance between talking and fighting in Najaf suggests that the government who ordered the operation has yet to establish its political authority over its citizenry...
...Vietnam, where the U.S. waged war in defense of a government increasingly bereft of support and legitimacy among its own citizenry. But Allawi may also believe he has no option but to risk the consequences of an offensive to stamp out the Sadrist challenge if he is to establish the authority of the central government, and that delay would only make the task more difficult...