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...their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh were settled bozkashi-style, as rivals succumbed, one after the other, to helicopter crashes and other dramatic rubouts...
...taking their quarrels to Washington. But one crucial difference is that the Palestinians don't have nuclear weapons. Although India has an overwhelming advantage in any conventional military confrontation, Pakistan won't necessarily fight a conventional war. For years it has pursued the Kashmir conflict through the proxy of Islamist guerrillas and terrorists. And although its nuclear doctrine is not yet clear, recent reports suggest that Pakistan actually mounted nuclear warheads atop missiles during the 1999 showdown with India over the Kargil section of Kashmir. Washington now has the unhappy task of averting a conflict every bit as intractable...
...Islamist terror cells operate in the shadows and base themselves in the Strip's crowded urban areas and refugee camps - Gaza City is one of the world's most densely populated cities. Even though Israeli military strategists believe Israel reestablished its deterrent capacity during "Defensive Shield" by breaking the previous taboo on sending troops into Palestinian cities and refugee camps, doing the same in Gaza raises the specter of civilian casualties - and also Israeli losses - far in excess of those seen in Jenin...
...state. Fundamentalists believe that Israel is a covenant land promised to the Jews by God. "It doesn't belong to a group called the Palestinians," Pat Robertson said last month. To Evangelicals, the attacks on Israel by Palestinian suicide bombers are an important test in the global fight against Islamist terrorism, a campaign fiercely backed by the Christian right. So Israel is now the hottest political button for American Evangelicals. "You hear about it in the churches, on talk radio," says Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition. "In the past 30 days, I have seen this move...
...help maintain this image. And while the Crimean peninsula's 278,000-strong Muslim Tatar population is viewed by the government in Kyiv as "peaceable vegetable growers," as Popovich puts it, strange things are happening there. Arabs from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere are providing funds and supplies of extremist Islamist Russian-language literature from Chechnya, according to Yanina Sokolovskaya, Ukraine correspondent of the Russian daily Izvestiya. A Tatar paramilitary organization, 100 or so members of which reportedly fought in Chechnya against the Russians, is quietly training in the hills of Crimea. And the idea of "marrying Crimea to Chechnya," Sokolovskaya...