Word: factionalization
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...largest and most lawless of the camps, located outside the southern port city of Sidon, was one of fury and mourning. "All that the Israelis are doing, these massacres, killings and bombings, is creating a new generation of suicide bombers," says Mounir Moqdah, a veteran warlord with the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He and his rivals in Hamas agreed, however, that military action against Israel from south Lebanon would not serve the Palestinian cause. "At this time, we will not retaliate from south Lebanon," says Abu Ahmad Fadel Taha, the leader of Hamas in Ain al-Hilweh...
...Young men like Breininger are dangerous for what they can do, of course. But they are also dangerous for what they represent: the first generation of German terrorists since the Baader-Meinhoff gang formed the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) in the 1970s...
...Faction Victim The force is disunited as well as over-stretched. Edward Rees was a former adviser to Ian Martin, the special envoy to East Timor who was sent by the U.N. to assess the situation after the violence of 2006. Now living in Dili, Rees says there are factions in the PNTL that have not forgotten the fighting. "They are trying to work together now, whereas in 2006 they may have been trying to shoot each other." All the same, he worries that the force lacks the cohesion to deal impartially with a large protest or riot, an ever...
...this begs the question, then, of what the Dalai Lama hopes to achieve with this week's congress in Dharamsala, which continues until Saturday and which he won't attend until its close. Tibetologists and other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier...
...clear anymore who is making the decisions." Thus there is cautious hope that Europe's last anachronistic terrorist grouping, which has more than 800 deaths to answer for over the last forty years, may finally be heading towards the obsolescence of Northern Ireland's IRA, Germany's Red Army Faction and Italy's Red Brigades. But such hopes have been cruelly dashed before...