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...which came of age fighting archrival India on more conventional battlegrounds, is little prepared to face a classic guerrilla insurgency. While some of Swat's militants are foreign, the majority are home-grown, nourished on local antipathy to a government that doesn't represent their wishes, and allowed to fester by political parties loath to alienate the religious vote by cracking down on demands for Sharia. "The people want the militancy to stop," says Adnan Aurangzeb, a former member of Parliament from Swat, and the grandson of the valley's last princely ruler. "The militants have stopped tourism and disrupted...
...Government (T.F.G.) - would make progress towards national reconciliation. If that could be accomplished, the U.N. and other agencies might feel safe enough to restart the substantive humanitarian assistance Somalia required. International business, led by enterprising Chinese telecom investors, was even probing Somalia's financial prospects. Might Somalia, left to fester in bloody chaos for so long, finally be rejoining the world...
...that. Skelos has compared the image of the noose to that of a swastika or a burning cross. But his examples prove our point: banning an image doesn’t extinguish the hatred behind it. Germany banned the swastika in 1945, yet neo-Nazis still fester in the far-right National Democratic Party. And we highly doubt that banning burning crosses would kill the Ku Klux Klan. Rather, these hate groups would find another symbol to abuse, or ignore the law altogether. It is unfortunate that racist incidents involved noose imagery have spiked in New York lately...
...worked in President Pervez Musharraf's favor. Security forces have clearly done their utmost over the past week to protect the lives of civilians, offering negotiations, amnesties, cash and even alternative schooling to students who surrender. However, the drawn-out face-off has allowed anti-government sentiment to fester in militant communities throughout the country. Three incidents in the tribal areas over the weekend, in addition to a possible machine-gun attack on Musharraf's plane as he prepared to fly to the flood-ravaged province of Baluchistan on Friday, cost the lives of four police. Armed tribesmen chanting anti...
...that into a way of life,” the queen said. During her address, which was co-sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government’s Women’s Leadership Board, she portrayed the ongoing conflict as one that “has been left to fester for far too long.” “The gulf between narratives is wide, and only getting wider,” she said. Jordan has expressed its support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, as well as for achieving peace in the Middle East. The queen...