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...food shipments will also give strength to the moderates in both Cuba and the U.S. who are seeking an end to the cold war standoff between the two nations. Castro's decision to buy the food--which aides insist is a one-time emergency move--will boost the growing influence of Cuba's economic liberalizers. And the fact that a U.S. commercial shipment is actually headed for Havana--a move hard-line Cuban-American leaders have bitterly fought--further erodes the embargo's flagging support...
...though, Muslim political representation is small. With a Muslim population of 800,000, the Netherlands has seven Muslim M.P.s. Britain has only two, and France none. Yet people like Bassam Tibi, a professor of international relations at the University of Göttingen who coined the term Euro-Islam, insist that the integration of Europe's Muslims depends on the adoption of a form of Islam that embraces Western political values, such as pluralism, tolerance, the separation of church and state, democratic civil society and individual human rights. "The options for Muslims are unequivocal," says Tibi. "There is no middle...
Wiley's disappearance mystified both investigators, who initially regarded it as a probable suicide, and close relatives, who insist that the professor was at the pinnacle of his career...
...believes a terrorist? It is also possible that he is dead, smothered in a collapsed cave or buried under a remote crag by comrades who will later insist that he escaped. Ideally, someone should peek behind each stone and stump in this massive area, but the Mujahidin fighters who drove Al-Qaeda from its bases certainly won't. Most have already withdrawn to Jalalabad. Besides, they have been so neglected by their commanders that they have little incentive to fight...
...Taliban and to uproot the al-Qaeda terrorist base there. Sure, U.S. commandos have been hunting day and night (without success) for bin Laden himself, but from the beginning Pentagon strategists were never optimistic that he?d be found quickly. He'll be caught or killed eventually, Pentagon officials insist, but no one seems willing to bet on when...