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...gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light on why some zealots make the inconceivable choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism. Heidi Deifel Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Hard Right Turn Iran's presidential election, which was won by the hard-line Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [July 4-11], proved that Iranians are very much like Americans. When they feel threatened, they become more entrenched and belligerent. The victory of an ultraconservative militant in Iran demonstrates the bankruptcy of George W. Bush's foreign policy. It caused Iranians to reject the relatively moderate candidate and elect...
...basij are on a roll right now, having organized the get-out-the-vote effort that propelled hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a landslide victory in last month's presidential election. The militia, whose name means mobilization in Persian, was created by Ayatullah Khomeini in the 1980s to recruit young men to fight against Iraq. But a decade later, they took on the role of an official morality police, becoming better known for raiding parties than for raiding the Iraqi front line. June's election, however, marked the first use of the basij as a mobilizing tool in electoral politics...
...shattered late last week by three nearly simultaneous explosions that killed at least 88 and wounded more than 200. The deadliest terrorist attack in Egypt since 1981--in a town considered secure enough to host cease-fire talks last winter between Israel's Ariel Sharon and Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas--comes less than two months before voters will decide whether President Hosni Mubarak gets a fifth six-year term in office. Mubarak's long run has hinged on his fight against terrorism while bolstering the economy through tourism. By attacking a hotel, a market and a parking lot near bars...
...Hard Right Turn Iran's Presidential election, which was won by the hard-line Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [July 4], proved that Iranians are very much like Americans. When they feel threatened, they become more entrenched and belligerent. The victory of an ultraconservative militant in Iran demonstrates the bankruptcy of George W. Bush's foreign policy. It caused Iranians to reject the relatively moderate candidate and elect a leader who is hostile to the U.S. and the rest of the West. Anne Barschall Tarrytown, New York...
...every television show had a 30-sec. piece featuring empty U.S. factories and dust blowing through American ghost towns, Chinese goods just might stop flying off the shelves. John A. Tardy Cordova, Tennessee, U.S. Sore Winner? Your item "A Hard-Liner For The People" [June 27] profiled Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the eve of the runoff vote in the Iranian presidential election, which he later won. Of Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad has said, "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy." Perhaps he needs to be reminded that it was the democratic process that elevated...