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...have extensive support networks and know the home terrain. "Why waste such a valuable resource on a single mission when you can use him for a number of other important tasks?" says Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, who investigates bombings in Iraq. These days, however, more and more Iraqis like Marwan Abu Ubeida are signing up to kill themselves. That is happening, Iraqi insurgents say, in part because the rebels' tactics now involve deploying a large number of such attackers, which is depleting the supply of foreign volunteers...
...soon, this somber young man plans to offer up a final prayer and then blow himself up along with as many U.S. or Iraqi soldiers as he can reach. Marwan Abu Ubeida says he has been training for months to carry out a suicide mission. He doesn't know when or where he will be ordered to climb into a bomb-laden vehicle or strap on an explosives-filled vest but says he is eager for the moment to come. While he waits, he spends much of his time rehearsing that last prayer. "First I will ask Allah to bless...
...then Hariri's enemies went too far. On an October trip to France to meet with French President Jacques Chirac, Hariri received word of an assassination attempt on Marwan Hamade, a member of parliament who had voted against Lahoud. Hariri saw the attempted hit as a warning. Nineteen days later, he quit as Prime Minister, writing Lahoud, "I entrust revered Lebanon and its good people to God Almighty...
...until now has run his father's business empire in Saudi Arabia, seems a virtual shoo-in for Prime Minister if he chooses to run. Many hope that Saad can finish the job of rebuilding and reuniting Lebanon his father began. "He is very capable and very serious," says Marwan Hamade, a leading opposition MP. "He has the knowledge and the guts. From where he is now, Rafik Hariri should be satisfied...
...Palestinian society, and the more democratic the politics of the Palestinian Authority become, the greater their representation in it will be. Mahmoud Abbas won January's presidential election precisely because he had the backing of the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, which persuaded his stronger rival, the imprisoned Marwan Barghouti, to drop out. (The most widely respected Palestinian polling organization, which called the election result to within a percentage point, concluded that had Barghouti run, the imprisoned militant would have beaten Abbas by a four-point margin.) Hamas was the big winner in the recent municipal elections in the West...