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...ability to garner the support of the Pakistani people if she cannot travel freely due to security concerns. “This could lead to a civil war situation if terrorists can go out and attack political parties,” said Research Fellow at the Belfer Center Hassan Abbas, who served on both Musharraf and Bhutto’s administrations. Abbas said that Bhutto, unlike the increasingly unpopular Musharraf, could initiate dialogue and reconciliation to address the rising problem of terrorism and Islamic radicalism. He added that Musharraf focused more on military solutions instead of diplomacy. Musharraf?...
...custody by the Iraqi government and put on trial for his role in the Anfal, Saddam's 1988 crackdown on Kurdish rebels that left thousands dead and included the notorious chemical-weapons attack on the town of Halabja. In June 2007, Hashem was sentenced to death, along with Ali Hassan Majid, known as "Chemical...
...happen," he said, contending that the Iraqi High Tribunal that tried Hashem is an independent special court that does not require a presidential signature to carry out its orders. If Hashem is hanged, it will likely be along with two other Ba'athists convicted as war criminals, notably Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical...
...entering Iraq to train Iraqi guerrillas at sites in and around Karbala and Najaf. American commanders in Iraq have long asserted that Iran operates guerrilla training facilities for Iraqi militants near Tehran. Indeed, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, is in reality a member of the Revolutionary Guards. Increasingly, U.S. soldiers are wondering if handlers from Iran's elite security forces have begun schooling and organizing fighters in the very areas American forces nominally control...
Moroccans call the nation's postindependence era, from the 1960s to the '80s, the "years of lead," a time when hundreds of political dissidents were jailed or "disappeared." The architect of the repression: longtime Interior Minister Driss Basri, King Hassan II's closest aide. Armed with a vast web of informers, Basri repeatedly quashed popular uprisings in the '80s and '90s. ("I'm not Jesus Christ," he once said. "If someone slaps my right cheek, I do not turn the left.") Fired in 1999 by Hassan's son and successor, Mohammed VI, he died in self-imposed exile in Paris...