Word: factionalism
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David Blumenfeld had just been shot by Omar Khatib, a young member of a radical faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. His attempted murder was part of a conspiracy to kill tourists in Jerusalem in order to attract international attention to their cause; the group would claim three victims in the coming days. David was lucky. The bullet went high, grazing his scalp, and he recovered quickly and completely. Laura, meanwhile, struggled to find a way to come to terms with what she later called “my first brush with evil...
...Bonn Agreement was supposed to establish an interim government representative of all of the diverse anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan in order to appease all of the major warlords. However, shortly before international forces arrived in Kabul last winter, the largest faction in the “Northern Alliance”—the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-e-Islami party—took over and occupied the capital. In exchange for withdrawing their forces from Kabul, Jamiat-e-Islami received the choicest cabinet positions, including the foreign, interior and defense ministries...
RUSSIA Communists Out The pro-Kremlin majority in the Duma stripped the Communist faction and its allies of the chairmanships of eight top Duma committees. In protest, the left-wing oppo-sition gave up control of the three committees they still kept. The parliament has scheduled a vote for April 19 on a draft appeal to have the Communist Party banned altogether...
Sharon's room for maneuvering--between seeking a truce and initiating hostilities--is constrained in part by the political environment in which he operates. He heads a coalition government that relies on both an ultra-right and a center-left faction. Thus he cannot lean too far in either direction without risking that one of the coalition members will quit, bringing his government down. If that were to happen, new elections would follow. With Israelis in a hawkish mood, Sharon's right-wing Likud Party would almost surely make significant electoral gains. But Sharon might not be his party...
...rebels, which ended with his death. Others claim that with the Maoists' political leaders abroad, military commanders have gained the upper hand. "The guerrilla wing has become stronger and the political wing has become weaker," says Yubaraj Ghimire, editor-in-chief of the Nepali-language Kantipur Daily. "The military faction is now leading and the whole concentration is on a military buildup." Others point to the rebels' use of fighters as young as 13 to explain the mindless brutality. As documented from Cambodia to Angola, indoctrinated, prematurely empowered child soldiers are capable of appalling atrocities...