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His next comic is about a 100-year U.S. war in the Middle East, with superpowered soldiers and flying Islamic fundamentalists. It's the kind of idea that would get squashed at a studio meeting, where the poor performance of all the Iraq-war movies would be trotted out. But...
In a crescendo of violence in the hours before the truce took effect, militants fired more than 29 rockets and Israel responded with three air and artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy...
A massing of Taliban fighters in Arghandab is a departure from the militant tactics that have evolved over the past two years. In 2006 NATO forces soundly defeated a Taliban force in nearby Panjwayi, and declared the movement all but dead. Since then there has been an increase in suicide...
While Abu Sayyaf's leadership seems to be lying low in the face of the rewards program, replacements have been found. Abu Sayyaf's latest leader is believed to be Yasir Igasan, an Islamic preacher in his 40s who was one of the group's founding members. According to a...
Another concern for the government has been Abu Sayyaf's shifting alliances with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), another Muslim independence movement of which Abu Sayyaf was an offshoot. The M.I.L.F. has been involved in on-off peace deals with Manila for almost a decade, though a special group...