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...money is going.” The Jan. 25 election is the third major election in the Palestinian Authority’s history. The first, which elected members to the charter PLC and voted Yasser Arafat in as president, took place on Jan. 20, 1996. The second, which brought Mahmoud Abbas to power following Arafat’s death, was held on Jan. 9, 2005.“The first two elections were reasonably credible and received pretty good marks in terms of adhering to international standards,” Blanc said. “[But] the series of local...
...other radical Islamist competitor for the mantle of U.S. Public Enemy No. 1 has lately been Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has garnered attention for his bristling hostility to the U.S. and his threat to wipe out Israel, all in the context of his defiance of the West over Iran's nuclear program. The attention paid to Zarqawi and Ahmadinejad has moved Bin Laden to the margins of Western news coverage, but his strategy for building al-Qaeda, as the single umbrella organization of global jihad, with himself as its "Sheikh," has been premised on his being recognized among...
...Hamas clearly seems to be rising. The conventional wisdom is that Hamas will finish a strong second to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah party in the election. But Fatah seems in complete disarray, unhinged by corruption and incompetence. Its factions appear to be literally at war with one another. "It's Somalia in Gaza," a prominent Palestinian security official told TIME's Jamil Hamad. "There's a different government on every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will...
...Western governments as much as for activists like Ardalan, the aims of the Iranian regime grow more alarming every day. Led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's elected government--whose powers are circumscribed by the country's ruling ayatullahs--has made confrontation the guiding tenet of its policies at home and in the world. The regime made its most provocative move yet last week, resuming work on its uranium-enrichment program, which the U.S. and some of its allies believe is a critical step toward the eventual production of nuclear weapons. The resumption touched off a flurry of international condemnation...
...ironies of Iran's latest confrontation with the West is that it is the product of - are you ready for this? - democratic politics. President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad's move towards restarting work on the country's nuclear program is the classic maneuver of an elected leader caught in a political bind...