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...seize power, the prognosis is grim. Preoccupied with factional fights within the Nepali Congress Party and in command of a poorly equipped army of just 45,000, Prime Minister Deuba has little chance of regaining much land in Maoist hands. All through rebel territory, police checkpoints, if they exist at all, go unmanned. Deuba came to power just under a year ago as a peacemaker, promising talks with the Maoists. But when the guerrillas broke off their truce in November, he declared a state of emergency and ordered the army into battle. Deuba?whose ancestral country home was torched...
Such voices do exist in the Arab world, but their words either fall on deaf ears, are muted by biased media or are drowned out in a sea of anger and bombings...
Some non-violent anti-occupation Arab organizations do exist, including Addameer, LAW (a Palestinian human rights organization) and the Arab Association for Human Rights. But compared to Peace Now, these groups are tiny...
More importantly, Peace Now does not exist to oppose Hamas; it opposes the Israeli occupation. There is no broad-based Arab equivalent...
...attack, Arshba adds, "I do not exclude the participation of U.S. advisers." Washington says its advisers will prepare Georgian counter-terrorist troops to root out a group of al-Qaeda operatives supposedly sheltering in the remote Pankisi valley, but many diplomats in Georgia wonder if the terrorists actually exist. The U.S. insists that its advisers will not be involved in any military actions. Arshba, a veteran of Afghanistan who trained at a military academy alongside some of the Georgian commanders he is preparing to fight, shrugged off the diplomatic niceties. "We're grown-ups. We understand that people...