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...that is not Muqtada al-Sadr's way. He shares with the late Iranian revolutionary Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini a belief in rule by the clergy in a strict theocratic state. Al-Sadr's strategy, it now appears, is to engage coalition forces in a deadly confrontation, in the belief that Iraqi Shi'ites will support him in a direct showdown with the U.S. His rabid anti-Americanism, which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society...
...most powerful Shi'ite clerics, who supported the ouster of one longtime enemy, Saddam Hussein, but now bristle at the presence of another one, the U.S., on their doorstep. Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American Iraqi cleric who launched the Shi'ite revolt, has ties to some conservative Iranian clerics. Current and former U.S. officials say Iran has also funneled money and weapons to other Shi'ite militias in Iraq. U.S. intelligence officials believe Iranian spies continue to slip across Iran's 900-mile border with Iraq, melting in among the thousands of Iranians who have resumed pilgrimages...
...latest of several former officials to criticize the Bush team's counterterrorism record. The Administration insists that the Iraq war has not diverted it from attacking al-Qaeda. Clinton, says Clarke, was more focused than Bush on the terrorism threat and launched a covert operation against Iranian interests in retaliation for a 1996 attack on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia. Clarke also says that Tom Ridge, the head of the Homeland Security department, opposed its creation. A spokesman for Ridge insists he supported setting up the agency; Clarke admits he was passed over as Ridge's deputy. --By Massimo Calabresi...
...published. The magazine already has groundings on the web, within the International Standard Serial Number administration and international recognition including a permanent subscription from a Belgian publisher. Cinematic has featured student-written articles next to submissions by people ranging from the producer of The Graduate to a Cannes-awarded Iranian director. All in all, 40 undergraduates and ourselves have been working extremely hard over the last two years to produce a magazine that is competing in quality with the most established publications on this campus and has been described by Bruce L. Jenkins, former curator of the Harvard Film Archive...
...Iraq's brave new entrepreneurs, life is tough, but there are rewards. An influx of Iranians is helping, and property prices have doubled in Najaf as guesthouses and hotels open to accommodate the travelers. Not surprisingly, some Iraqis are suspicious of the unrestricted flow from a country that was at war with Iraq for eight years in the 1980s. They believe that Iran controls Iraq's new extremist Shi'ite parties, and there are fears that Iranian intelligence officers have infiltrated southern Iraq. "Iran has been trying to destroy our country since before the Prophet, and it is still trying...