Word: faction
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...Saturday's attacks, but security officials and terrorism experts suspect they were carried out by a group associated with Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based JI expert with the International Crisis Group, speculates that a faction led by fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari bin Husin and his countryman Nordin bin Top may be to blame. Says Jones: "We recently received information that Azahari had started a new special forces group called the Thoisah Moqatilah." The group, says Jones, has apparently split from JI's mainstream elements, which...
...Palestinian Authority is in terrible trouble. And not only from Hamas. Primarily its problem lies in the large numbers of gunmen nominally linked to the ruling Fatah faction of the PLO. Over the five years of the intifadeh, they've come to rule their villages, refugee camps, or towns as gangster fiefs. They were somewhat held in check by the money Yasser Arafat sent them. When Abbas took over as Palestinian leader after Arafat's death in November, he stopped the funds. That makes these groups dangerous and desperate. They've kidnapped foreign aid works and journalists to threaten...
...down the presidencies of Ferdinand Marcos and, more recently, Joseph Estrada; of renal failure; in Manila. After Marcos called for and won a snap election in 1986 that was widely suspected to be fraudulent, Sin took to the airwaves, rallying the country of devout Catholics to join a military faction that had mutinied against Marcos. After a three-day standoff, Marcos fled. Sin stepped in again to help oust the corrupt Estrada in 2001. Famous for his humor--"Welcome to the House of Sin" was his greeting to houseguests--he responded to criticisms of his secular activism by saying...
...history. Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations ... Says a Syrian official: 'Lebanon is the one issue on which any Syrian President would be prepared to take the greatest risk' ... At some point or another, every Lebanese faction has sought Syria's help. Syria's prominent role in Lebanese politics is as much a result of Lebanon's invitations as of interference by Damascus...
...high cost. Years of fighting have devastated once thriving villages. Electrical lines hang limply from wooden poles, and telephone service is just a memory. Correspondent Ricardo Chavira returned last week from a rare tour of the area with officials of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the most powerful faction within the five-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Chavira's report...