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...Chechen rebels and destabilizing Tajikistan, whose hard-pressed armed forces are assisted by Russian ones. China is worried that Muslim Uighur separatists are being trained in Afghan camps. India is desperate to stop the flow to Kashmir of fighters trained by bin Laden. Iran, a nation of Shi'ite Muslims, detests the Taliban because it consists of Sunni extremists; moreover, Tehran has to deal both with Afghan refugees and with drug runners who have been fighting a low-level war with Iranian border guards. Iran itself has a history of sponsoring terrorism in the Middle East, and although its intelligence...
IRAN The radical Shi'ite government here detests the radical Wahhabi Sunnis of the Taliban and al-Qaeda...
...except the voters. The big loser was the Canadian Alliance's Stockwell Day, a political figure considered fresh and exciting by everyone except the voters. (I think the Alliance, a new party, chose an unfortunate name, by the way. What would you call one of its followers--an Alliance-ite?) There were two other candidates, both of whom managed to do better than Ralph Nader without being nearly as sanctimonious...
...barrel of oil. If the Western countries cannot afford to buy oil from OPEC because of the high prices, then they can do themselves a favor by finding alternatives to oil. Western leaders need to realize that OPEC countries are no longer willing to be shortchanged. UWEM ITE Lancaster, England...
Call it cyberjihad. With his nubby oatmeal sweater, blue jeans and easy smile, Malek Hussein might seem more at home sipping a latte in Seattle than sugary tea in Beirut's Shi'ite Muslim stronghold. But the 38-year-old self-taught Webmaster is holed up in a secret office where the Lebanese Islamic group Hizballah operates an Internet site that blasts propaganda against Israel. With a four-person staff, Hussein is fending off a hacker assault launched by Israelis. "They're going after us!" proclaims Hussein, who loads software designed to deflect the bulk messages that become e-mail...