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...face of it all, Musharraf is moving vigorously to tilt the odds his way. Besides deploying heavy security forces to contain demonstrations, he put three of the most virulent extremist leaders under house arrest. His most significant actions took place inside the army's barracks. He renewed his term as military chief "indefinitely." And he shook out top generals partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three...
...face of it all, Musharraf is moving vigorously to tilt the odds his way. Besides deploying heavy security forces to contain demonstrations, he put three of the most virulent extremist leaders under house arrest. His most significant actions took place inside the army's barracks. He renewed his term as military chief "indefinitely." And he shook out top generals partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three...
...Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for being too soft on Palestinians after Sharon loosened control over two West Bank villages. In fact, in light of these grievances, Ze’evi resigned from the Israeli Parliament on Monday, a move that was scheduled to take effect Tuesday afternoon. If this extremist position is quite troubling to the Israeli political center and left, it must seem highly threatening to Palestinians. It would not be difficult, given the already vitriolic anti-Israel sentiments among Palestinians, to brand Ze’evi as an enemy, especially given that under its current policy Israel...
...despite his extremist political views, Ze’evi was not a terrorist. In a democratic parliamentary system like Israel’s, no individual, not even a cabinet minister, can act single-handedly. Although there exist right-wing parties in Israel that are quite skeptical of the Palestinian Authority as a potential partner in peace, there are also left-wingers who advocate the immediate creation of a Palestinian state. The debates between these two sides have been fierce, but they have been conducted within an organized, democratic body...
...Most of the news about Indonesia that reaches the U.S. comes from the cities of Java - Jakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Yogyakarta - where demonstrations are held frequently outside US consular facilities. This is where extremist groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more...