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Whatever Arafat’s eventual fate, imprisoning him inside his office only fuels the rage of Palestinian extremists by making Arafat a symbol of resistance to Israeli oppression. Moreover, he has no opportunity to mitigate extremist violence, as Sharon and Bush have asked of him, if his contact with those groups...
With an attractive proposal on the table, Palestinian moderates would likely exert pressure on Arafat and extremist groups to end the violence. If violence stops and a settlement is reached, U.N. peacekeepers should step in to protect the Palestinian-Israeli border...
TIME's reporting vividly depicts the mayhem caused by extremist groups of Hindus and Muslims [WORLD, March 11]. Clashes under the guise of religion and political expediency can create long-term divisions between people and nations. Religious bigots should never use the name of God to instigate violence. People and their leaders must work hard to debunk these false prophets and stop the deaths of the innocent. ADRIAN VILLANUEVA Singapore
...crucial potential witness against Moussaoui is a Malaysian Islamic extremist in jail north of Kuala Lumpur on unrelated terrorism charges. FBI Director Bob Mueller traveled to Malaysia two weeks ago and offered local security officials FBI training and other incentives in exchange for access to the man. But the officials, upset because the Western press had described Malaysia as a staging base for the Sept. 11 attacks, rebuffed the FBI chief. Sources say Mueller is still optimistic that the Malaysians will come around and send the prisoner to the U.S. to testify against Moussaoui...
...well, the country has failed to gel. Although more than 70% of the population are ethnic Ukrainians, the main media, printed and electronic, continue to be in Russian. Western Ukraine, the one part of the country attached, ferociously so, to the Ukrainian language, has developed a reputation for extremist nationalism. Controversial and well-publicized decisions - last week, for example, the city of Ivano-Frankivsk recognized veterans of the SS Galicia Division as combatants for the freedom and independence of Ukraine - help maintain this image. And while the Crimean peninsula's 278,000-strong Muslim Tatar population is viewed...