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...government agents. He is said to be in failing health, and will probably live out his days a recluse. And yet one year after Khan appeared on Pakistani television and confessed to selling some of that country's most prized secrets, the world is only beginning to uncover the extent of his treachery--and comprehend how one man did more to destabilize the planet than did many of the world's worst regimes...
...Most reporting from polling stations suggests that the big winners, as expected, will be the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, backed by Sistani. But the extent of its dominance remains to be seen. There were indications in the weeks preceding the election that the coalition of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was reeling in the UIA's lead, drawing support not only from a middle class secular constituency but also from Shiites wary of giving clerics political authority. Allawi may have been helped by what appears to have been a de facto boycott by supporters of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada...
...whatever the precise makeup of the government, much of the campaigning -to the extent that there was any-by the major parties presented voting as a means of ending "the occupation," the unflattering shorthand used by Iraqis across much of the political spectrum (including members of Allawi's own cabinet) to describe the U.S. presence. Opinion polls continue to show that a majority of Iraqi voters want the U.S. to leave immediately after the election, and a new government, whatever its makeup, will be expected to respond to that sentiment...
...coalitions that either carry some prior national or communal standing, or have access to effective national channels of communication, or both. Lists with access to government - particularly the Iraqi List of acting Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which combines largely secular Sunni and Shiite candidates, and to a lesser extent, the separate Iraqis Party list of acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, which has a similar makeup to Allawi's although it includes Sunni elements critical of U.S. military actions - have the advantage of incumbency, particularly as regards media access. But that may be a mixed blessing in light of the failure...
Though von Korff said science fiction would always “to some extent be a fringe culture,” he maintained that Vericon has a broad appeal...