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...Moreover, most of what has been achieved has occurred outside of the "roadmap" framework. The relative calm of the past month is a product not of negotiations between Sharon and Abbas, but of the "hudna" agreement that Abbas and Arab governments, particularly Egypt, managed to persuade Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the militants of Fatah to sign. Sharon, for his part, insists that his actions on the settlements are not dictated by the "roadmap" at all, but by a separate agreement between himself and President Bush...
...appealing to the White House because his efforts to sway Sharon on this question have been fruitless. Israel plans to release up to 520 prisoners, including some members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that's only 10 percent of the total number, and Israel is making clear it won't release anyone convicted of killing Israelis, and will act gradually as it sees Abbas cracking down on those organizations. That's unlikely to be enough for the militants, and may therefore not be enough for Abbas, who insists that prisoner-release is the single most important means of establishing...
...made even more difficult by the fact that while Sharon is the executive in charge of all Israeli actions, Abbas essentially functions as a mediator between the Americans and Israelis on the one hand, and the Palestinians with whom they refuse to talk on the other - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the militants of Fatah and Yasser Arafat. He rules at Arafat's pleasure, and the only leverage Abbas has is to threaten to quit. He has repeatedly used that device in his clashes with Arafat, and he does the same in Washington, warning that unless the U.S. can squeeze more concessions...
...reintegrating low-level Taliban into Afghan society. But Mullah Khaksar, an ex-Taliban minister who later allied himself with the Northern Alliance, says Talibs are warned by their peers that "they'll be sent to Guant?namo" if they return. Or, he adds, "[the Taliban] pay people to join their jihad." Mullah Nik Mohammed, a Taliban commander captured in Spin Boldak, told his interrogators that he would have received $850 for detonating a bomb, double that if it killed a civilian, and $2,600 for taking a soldier's life...
...says Colonel Davis, "that we show measurable, visible progress in terms of stability and reconstruction." A school or clinic built by the coalition, NGOs or local government can have a huge impact on a village, providing not only services but also a rebuttal to the Taliban's call to jihad. In Tani, a village in Khost province a few kilometers from the border with Pakistan, parents say school enrollment has doubled, and a 14-year-old boy excitedly describes a curriculum that now includes science, math and English. At a fruit stand in Logar province, Shakur, 60, says his village...