Word: hashem
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...about 9/11 any more. He is the legitimate President." - By James Carney and John F. Dickerson IRAN Win One, Lose One The battle for control of Iran is intensifying. Conservative clerics fired a warning shot by sentencing to death a prominent reform advocate, academic and journalist Hashem Aghajari, for allegedly renouncing Islam. Aghajari's supporters say his only "crime" had been to call for reform within the Islamic clergy; his lawyers hope to have the sentence overturned on appeal. Another prominent pro-reform figure, Abbas Abdi, was also arrested. But there was good news for the reform movement...
...army. Although the vote, which was boycotted by the territory's Serb minority, was to appoint representatives to local authorities, they represented the first opportunity for Kosovo's Albanians to state their political preferences since the war. And Rugova's victory appears to have been a stunning setback for Hashem Thaci and other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had long disparaged Rugova's moderation...