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After four years of violence that shows no signs of ending, opposition to Arafat is spreading to the street. A leading Arafat critic, former Minister Nabil Amr, was shot in the leg by a gunman last week; reformers took it as at least a warning from Arafat loyalists. In Gaza, Arafat's Fatah faction issued a stream of leaflets accusing his henchmen of corruption and violence. Most of the vitriol was aimed at Arafat's cousin Moussa, whom he named this month to head the National Security Forces. The leaflets also accused Arafat of siphoning off public money...
...life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...KILLED. FRANCISCO ORTIZ FRANCO, 48, editor and co-founder of the Mexican newsweekly Zeta, famed for its reporting campaigns against the country's drug cartels; by a masked gunman; in Tijuana. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks against Zeta: another of the newspaper's co-founders was murdered in 1988 and its publisher was wounded in a 1997 attack...
...behind bars, U.S. officials insist, the paramilitary fighters will become the new big cats of the Colombian cocaine trade, successors to infamous Medellín and Cali cartels. They took a step in that direction in April, when protrafficking bosses - led by Diego Murillo, an ex-Medellín gunman, whom the U.S. calls a major trafficker - appeared to win control of the AUC. On April 16, Carlos Castaño, 39, who co-founded the AUC in the 1980s and in recent years urged it to give up the drug trade, disappeared after an attack near...
Then al-Sadr sweeps out to his waiting convoy. "Turn your back to the mosque," a gunman orders a journalist as al-Sadr heads for his vehicle. Outsiders are not allowed to see which one he gets into. Al-Sadr's bodyguards and escorts race to their cars. One of them, a cleric in a turban and a long robe, totes a light machine gun and nods politely as he trots by. While the rest of the crowd disperses, the mosque loudspeaker system calls for blood donors...