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While leaders of Iraqi rebel groups in the south make grand predictions of a spontaneous Shi'ite-and Iraqi-army uprising against Saddam, many of them are refusing to join forces with the Americans. Sheik Jamal al-Wakil of the Islamic Accord Movement, an opposition Shi'ite group, says there is widespread distrust of the U.S. because coalition forces did nothing to stop Saddam's brutal suppression of the Shi'ites' 1991 and 1995 uprisings, even though it was George Bush Sr. who encouraged them. "There is no need for any communication with the Americans," says the Syria-based...
IRAQ WAS CREATED out of three Ottoman Empire provinces-one dominated by Sunni Arabs, one by Shi'ite Arabs and one by Kurds. Saddam Hussein is from the Sunni Arab minority that controls the country today...
...ite Arab: 60% Sunni Arab: 20% Sunni Kurd: 17% Other...
BAHRAIN The government is sensitive to strong public opinion against a war at a time when the new king is trying to heal civil strife between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Yet Bahrain fears Iraq. As host to headquarters of the U.S. naval Fifth Fleet, Bahrain is not expected to actively oppose U.S. action...
...vehicles?4 million?is more than Bombay's, Calcutta's and Madras' combined, is still a long way from becoming a Vancouver or a Sydney. But since 1995, pollution levels have dropped 25%, says Dilip Biswas, chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board. No longer does every other Delhi-ite suffer from a respiratory disease. Walkers in the city's many parks now leave their face masks at home. As Biswas says, "Sulfur dioxide in the air is within prescribed limits, and suspended particle matter has also come down." And, more poetically, "Now you can see the stars at night...