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When a group of rival militants of Hamas and Fatah loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas got together in Gaza last week, Palestinians had reason to fear the worst. For days, feuding gunmen from both parties had engaged in running firefights with each other in Gaza and the West Bank. But this time, there was cause for relief: They were gathering for a wedding. The bride was the daughter of Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar, and the guest list included a Who's Who of the Hamas leadership and senior Fatah officials - foes who just a few hours before...
...last week, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack blasted the SCO for having included Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the summit: "Having Iran there as an observer?Iran, the world's largest or most significant state sponsor of terrorism ... runs counter to the idea that this is a group dedicated in part to countering terrorism in the region." Ahmadinejad responded by warning SCO nations against "domineering powers [who] use their force against and interfere in the affairs of other states." Still, the regional conference could prove useful in curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions. After meeting on the sidelines with both...
...Skepticism about the government's ability to clean up the Interior Ministry isn't limited to Sunnis. Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament, said he believed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had the desire to combat militia influence but may not have the power to do so. "I'm sure he's serious," Othman said. "Whether he can do it or not I don't know...
...they do it the same way they did before it will fail," said Mahmoud Othman, a member of Iraq's parliament of the counterinsurgency effort. And President Bush surely knows by now that the U.S. and Iraqi government can't afford to fail too many more times...
...source of the looming chaos is not just the usual Israeli-Palestinian antagonism. Monday's attacks on the Palestinian parliament and government offices by gunmen of the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas are a reminder that tensions between the Palestinian factions are escalating into low-intensity civil war - one in which the U.S. could suffer, as in Somalia, as a result of aligning itself too closely with factions viewed with hostility by many of those on the sidelines...