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After Karzai was elected president, he announced a permanent government that included Defense Minister Muhammad Qasim Fahim, Haji Abdul Qadir, and Kharim Khalili, all of whom are warlords suspected to be responsible for countless acts of brutalities under the former Taliban rule. Chief Justice Shinwari, who publicly has called for full support of sharia or Islamic law, was reappointed. The majority of the Judicial Commission, which is responsible for reconciling Islamic law with other legal traditions, was educated in religious schools...
...Alevism is simple and humanistic," K??k says. "That means we don't bog down in matters of dogma concerning this verse or that one. So we've found it easier to become somewhat unified in Europe, as well as to integrate into European society." That humanism is personified in Haji Bektash, a 13th century Alevi holy man who, according to Alevi lore, encouraged people to turn the other cheek and love their neighbors. Alevis generally embraced Kemal Ataturk's separation of church and state in the 1930s, but their outsider status drew many to leftist politics. The Alevis in Germany...
...killed at least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel to take over the president's security. The mounting campaign of bombings and ambushes of government and U.S. targets over the summer underscore not only the fragility of the U.S.-backed Karzai regime, but also a resurgent anti-American...
...Outside Gardez, Haji Noor Mohammad, commander of Zadran's men, stands guard at one of Zadran's checkpoints. Mohammad says he has just given an intelligence briefing to the Americans. Pointing up to the peaks to the south, he warns, "There are more al-Qaeda here in this area. After Shah-i-Kot, they went to the tops of the mountains." Pacha Khan Zadran is vain, grasping and irksome?but his help may be worth the aggravation...
...debut turn by Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened to her a woman's not built for!"; and the legendary snake-venom scene where Rocco instructs leading lady Haji to "Suck it! Suck it out!") Finally, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", which doesn't need my exclamation points, since it comes with three of its own, and which film director and cultural garbalogist John Waters proclaimed "the best movie ever made...