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...once again been reduced to the supplicant role, sending a delegation on Wednesday to implore Sistani to intervene. But the Grand Ayatollah has problems of his own with the Coalition and the IGC, and has been agitating against the U.S.-brokered interim constitution which grants veto power to ethnic minorities and also for rapid transfer of power to a democratically elected government. Indeed, Moqtada Sadr has enthusiastically championed the same demands in the course of his rebellion, which is nonetheless a power play in which the radical Islamist hopes to eclipse the influence of rival Shiite leaders, including Sistani...
...clear the 7% electoral minimum required to have a parliamentary presence. Mounting Crisis SUDAN The U.N. said it would send a fact-finding mission to the western Darfur region after its emergency-relief coordinator in the area told the Security Council that Arab militias are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black Sudanese. MEANWHILE IN BRAZIL ... Vote Enhancement Congressman Antonio Jose de Moraes Souza was ordered to step down by an electoral court that found him guilty of buying votes with Viagra. The court concluded that a doctor arrested at a rally for Souza in 2002 - wearing a campaign...
...Killing Continues KOSOVO Two U.N. peacekeepers died in an ambush as the fallout continued from the worst wave of violence to sweep Kosovo since the 1999 war. NATO troops and international police arrested almost 200 suspects in the previous week's riots, in which ethnic Albanian mobs targeted the Serbian minority, leaving 28 dead. U.N. agencies estimate that almost 4,000 Serbs were displaced, 366 homes destroyed, and 41 churches burned...
During the event, Dallaire discussed his dealings with U.N. bureaucracy and his efforts to “stymie the progress” of the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu government. The Hutus were the ethnic majority in Rwanda...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell. He urged them to stay focused on winding down the U.S. occupation and giving Iraq a sovereign government. When multiple suicide attacks killed more than 180 in Baghdad and Karbala earlier this month, Pachachi worked the phones, summoning council members of all ethnic groups to a news conference to appeal for unity...