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...hatred of the al-Maliki government, which he accuses of "serving foreign masters" - a reference to the close ties of leading Shi'ite politicians to Iran. The loathing is mutual. Top government leaders, from President Jalal Talabani on down, have described al-Dari as an inciter of ethnic and sectarian violence. Last November, the Interior Ministry issued a warrant for his arrest. Ever since, he has divided his time between several Arab states, monitoring al-Maliki's actions from afar. Not even the Prime Minister's recent decision to allow many former Baath Party officials back into government has impressed...
...COMPETITIONS 1,000 Length, in meters, of a tightrope-billed as the longest ever-strung across Seoul's Han River, as part of what organizers called the world's first international high-wire competition 11 min. 22 sec. Time it took winner Abudusataer Wujiabudula, an ethnic Uighur from China, to cross the tightrope, earning him a prize...
...little to do with the current events in Balata,” but this minimizes both the prolonged suffering of the Palestinian refugees and the role of Israel in creating the refugee problem (as described by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe in his recent book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”), and in prolonging...
...that the Democrats will have to drop their deadlines for troop withdrawal. But there is likely to be significant Republican support for another idea that Bush opposes: imposing "benchmarks" on the Iraq government. Those benchmarks in the vetoed bill covered everything from disarming militias to sharing oil revenues across ethnic groups. "If they come to us with that," says a senior G.O.P. congressional aide, "we'll take it." Republicans are also likely to insist that Democrats jettison some of the extraneous spending in the bill...
...Despite some recent government steps toward national reconciliation, such as introducing (although not yet passing) legislation to share oil revenues equitably among Iraq's ethnic regions, Arab leaders remain to be convinced that al-Maliki will follow through. Saudi Arabia recently announced a willingness to write off billions in Iraqi debts, but in signs of Riyadh's displeasure, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud called the U.S. presence in Iraq "illegitimate," and refused to receive al-Maliki in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal told the conference that the Kingdom wants to see "true national reconciliation...