Word: fractious
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...mobile units seizing ground in Iraq to create staging areas for larger deployments be enough to force Saddam's own army to overthrow him, or should the U.S. assume the need to mount a full-blown invasion and occupation? Should the U.S. hand over power to Iraq's traditionally fractious exiled opposition, or should the U.S. military itself run Iraq until such time as an Iraqi civilian authority capable of stabilizing the country emerges...
...mobile units seizing ground in Iraq to create staging areas for larger deployments be enough to force Saddam's own army to overthrow him, or should the U.S. assume the need to mount a full-blown invasion and occupation? Should the U.S. hand over power to Iraq's traditionally fractious exiled opposition, or should the U.S. military itself run Iraq until such time as an Iraqi civilian authority capable of stabilizing the country emerges...
...Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced out of the post. Since then she has presided over often fractious legislators with a gentle but firm hand. It hasn't been easy. She has had water thrown in her face and once had to order security staff to eject several unruly M.P.s. But she never lost her cool. "Maybe they thought I wouldn't be strong enough to stand...
...vast majority of Indonesians practice a moderate form of Islam, the country is an attractive haven for Muslim extremists. Monitoring terrorist activity in a swath of territory that spans more than 13,000 islands would test the mettle of any government, let alone a democracy as young and fractious as Indonesia's. Since the start of her tenure last year Megawati has shied away from trying to snuff out the extremist threat, in part to placate religious conservatives like Vice President Hamzah Haz, Megawati's likely opponent in the 2004 presidential race, who has long supported radical groups...
...centuries: Turkish Alevism. This mystic brand of Islam is practiced by 25% of the more than 2.5 million Turks in Germany and up to 30% of Turkey's 66 million people - though you won't find them in any census. That's because Turkey, mindful of its fractious past, forbids large minorities from formally identifying themselves as anything other than Turkish Muslim. "As a result," says Dertli, "most Europeans don't even know we exist." The building is Berlin's Anatolian Alevi Culture Center, one of nearly 300 such facilities scattered across Europe. Delegates from 165 centers converged on Brussels...