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...future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access to food or medical aid. At least five people died when an avalanche blocked the Salang Tunnel. Faction leaders met to resolve security problems, while Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf pledged to help the country's reconstruction...
...military, he's finding himself in the spotlight as the Army Special Operations Commander for Joint Task Force 510. That translates as the officer in charge of U.S. forces in the Philippines, deployed to help that country's army fight terrorism. The immediate enemy is Abu Sayyaf, a splinter faction of the wider Muslim secessionist movement in the southern Philippines. Years of fighting the Philippine military has reduced it to a group of around 80 fighters, mostly engaged in kidnapping and other forms of banditry. They currently hold three foreign hostages, two of them American. The hot, thick jungles have...
...discretion of the priest - another thorny issue waiting to ambush the Canterbury incumbent. Meanwhile, Chartres may take hope from the pattern of recent decades: the Canterbury job has alternated between the denomination's high church "smells and bells" wing and the sometimes - but not always - "happy clappy" evangelical faction, to which Carey and Nazir-Ali belong...
...southern Philippines may pose problems. The MNLF, of course, is today the ruling party in Basilian, and five other regions that have joined the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao since the peace agreement of 1996. This week's firefight between police and soldiers appears related to a faction fight between rival factions of the MNLF - the imprisoned Misauri had launched his rebellion only after being voted out of office by his own party, and his support-base remains limited...
...failed to bond with Arafat last week was Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. Usually, Arafat counts on Egypt to support his positions, but this time the Palestinians didn't like what Maher had to say. In a three-hour meeting with Arafat on Thursday, Maher told him his Fatah faction was linked too closely in international eyes with the terrorists of Hamas. "You have to dissociate yourself from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, so we can defuse the Israeli aggression," Maher said, according to an Arafat aide who was present. "You have a problem with the Americans, the Israelis and with...