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Complicating matters, the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah, which helped drive Israel's forces out of Lebanon two years ago, has boosted its support for the intifadeh. In January Jordanian officials arrested three Hizballah guerrillas for trying to smuggle weapons into the West Bank. Israeli officials say the group was behind a cross-border raid into northern Israel that killed six Israelis last month. On Saturday Hizballah launched a new attack on Israeli soldiers guarding the country's northern border. In an interview with TIME, Hizballah's deputy secretary, General Naim Qassem, said, "It is our duty...
...country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected in 1996 and is living in Copenhagen. Khazraji can rally the professional military against Saddam, experts say, and would reassure the Saudis and others that Iraq won't fragment into Shi'ite and Kurdish enclaves. But Khazraji's close ties to the seat of power in Iraq create problems for him. A court in Copenhagen is considering bringing war-crimes charges against Khazraji for the massacre of Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. Khazraji says the blame for the massacres lies...
...familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode of Harvard shocker: just two quiet and decorous “not guilty” pleas. From...
...destroy them, too. Of Mongoloid stock, the Hazara have long been the objects of discrimination in Afghanistan, and suffered a terrible massacre in Kabul in 1993 by troops under the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. But they fared even worse under the Taliban. They are Shi'ite Muslims, and therefore heretics to the Taliban. Hazara leaders say the Taliban wanted to exterminate them, and the devastation of the valley lends credence to their claims. But the few Taliban left in the valley, bedraggled prisoners you can see being escorted down the village's main street, were anxious...
This new interpretation is taking shape in different places at different speeds. Although non-Muslims often view Islam as a monolithic bloc, the religion is characterized by its diversity. With over a billion believers scattered across every continent, as well as separate Shi'ite and Sunni traditions, the Muslim community (or ummah) has long been a philosophical construct rather than a demographic reality. That's true in Europe, where Muslims are divided by country of residence as much as by country of origin. "The problems Muslims are facing here are deeply influenced by the institutions of the countries where they...