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As the dust settles on post-Saddam's Iraq's first democratic election, the big winners are the Shiite Islamist parties rather than the U.S.-backed interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Indeed, Allawi, whose list gathered just 14 percent of the national vote, appears to have conceded that he's...
If some in the Syrian regime had calculated that killing Hariri would send a message of that Syria was the indispensable guarantor of peace, that would have been a dangerous miscalculation - a panicky response to mounting pressure to leave Lebanon to the Lebanese. If anything, now, that pressure is likely...
Jolo is one of the Philippines' wildest places. Abu Sayyaf uses it as a refuge from the law; the group's traditional base is the island of Basilan to the north. The M.N.L.F. was actually born on Jolo in the late-1960s, from which it spread its call for an...
Moderation has become increasingly prevalent among both the Israeli and Palestinian populations as the conflict has dragged on for an ever longer period of time, which might partly explain the recent willingness of Hamas and other groups to forego acts of violence. Yet militant elements still enjoy strong support in...
Rashodi believes that Islam and democracy are compatible, so long as elections don't contravene strict Islamic teaching. But this election - in which women could not vote and men were choosing only half the council members, with the rest to be appointed - also underscore the contradictions of U.S. policy in...