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...fighting. In other words, Zarqawi complained that the Iraqi insurgents actually imagined a future for themselves. And that being the case, they'd be averse both to suicide attacks and also to tactics such as the indiscriminate killing of Shiites (as advocated by Zarqawi) that would imperil prospects for holding Iraq together. For the global-jihadists, of course, Iraq is but a moment in an international campaign planned to last for decades, whose primary weapon is suicide attacks and whose footsoldiers envisage a future only in the paradise they believe they will enter as a result. But for nationalist Sunnis...
...Saudi Arabia's rulers are watching events in Iraq with considerable trepidation. They opposed the invasion on the grounds that the resulting instability would imperil the region, and they fear that the current dynamic could break up Iraq into ethnic enclaves, an outcome that would spark new troubles throughout the region, not least in oil-rich eastern Saudi Arabia where secessionist voices among the Saudis Shiite minority would likely be amplified. Riyadh's best-case scenario had been to maintain a Sunni-dominated polity in post-Saddam Baghdad, but right now that looks unlikely. Iraq's future hangs...
...note ADP's good luck: the disaster struck shortly before 7 a.m., limiting a death toll that otherwise might have been in the hundreds. Others suggested the crash might prevent the airport from servicing the new superjumbo Airbus A380 when deliveries begin in 2006, or that it might even imperil Airbus' entire A380 project. That seems farfetched, since de Gaulle (like Frankfurt and Heathrow, which will welcome the first A380 flights by Singapore Airlines), is building the new S3 terminal largely custom-tailored to the A380's needs. Still, the spectacular collapse of 2E's midsection has some wondering whether...
...bomb. Without an annual influx of at least 230,000 people, Germany's population of 83 million will shrink to 51 million in 2050 and 24 million in 2100, according to Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for World Population and Global Development. Such a steep drop could imperil funding for Germany's state pensions. And despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 10.5%, almost 75,000 jobs are presently unfilled because of a shortage of skilled personnel - just the kind of people the new law is meant to attract. "Germany needs an immigration law geared to growth...
...Even the U.S., perhaps mindful now of the extent to which events in Gaza can imperil its own goals in Iraq, refrained from its customary veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Israeli action. But the Israelis showed no sign of letting up on an offensive they say is essential to prepare the way for the pullout plan currently under consideration. The plan enthusiastically backed by President Bush involves Israel leaving all of Gaza and abandoning four isolated settlements in the West Bank, in exchange for U.S. endorsement of Israel's claim to hang on to the broad...