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...government launched an all-out war on Hamas even as Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abbas pursued cease-fire talks with the organization. Abbas has failed so far to persuade even the militants of his own Fatah faction to sign on to a cease-fire, much less the Islamist opposition...
...Another story alleged that the morals cops had arrested and beaten a woman just for accepting a car ride from a man she wasn't related to. After the May 12 terrorist attacks that killed 34 in Riyadh, Khashoggi ratcheted up his campaign, targeting religious hard-liners sympathetic to Islamist radicals. He published a cartoon (below) depicting a suicide bomber festooned with fatwas--religious edicts issued by Muslim clerics--instead of bombs. "We used to say that we are a good society, that the bad ideas come from abroad," Khashoggi, who describes himself as an Islamist, explained in a TIME...
...this week, but by Friday there were reasons to doubt the extent of his following among Palestinians. First, Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat ripped into Wednesday's meeting at Aqaba, saying Abbas had gotten precious little by way of concrete undertakings from Ariel Sharon. Then on Friday the militant Islamist group Hamas announced that it would hold no further talks with Abbas on a proposed cease-fire, accusing him of having sold out the Palestinian cause by agreeing at Aqaba to end the intifadah without securing Palestinian demands. The Hamas announcement leaves Abbas - and the "roadmap" plan - in a crisis...
...peaceful. The Iraqi Shiite community doesn't require Iranian influence to generate suspicion of U.S. motives or to insist on a role in government consistent with its two thirds majority of Iraq's population - and it could be a dangerous mistake for U.S. officials to imagine every expression of Islamist sentiment among Iraqi Shiites as the handiwork of Iran...
...plot and characters. Officials say most of the bombers were undereducated, unemployed and without hope of escaping Sidi Moumen's dilapidated, crowded, refuse-strewn streets - oases of despair where joblessness exceeds the estimated national rate of 20% and illiteracy runs over 50%. Such conditions are easily exploited by radical Islamist groups like the outlawed Salafia Jihadia and its offshoot Assirat al Moustaqim (Straight Path), which officials say recruited the bombers. "That's a major contrast with Islamist networks in the Gulf and Middle East, which rely mostly on the educated, cultivated upper-middle and affluent classes for members," notes...