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...regional tensions would bolster support for radical Islamists, who boycotted the previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential...
...lambs are wedged into a conveyer belt that carries them from the holding pen to the butcher. Some bleat insistently but most are quiet, bewildered. The machine stops for a moment and Mohammad Hussain, a Muslim cleric who sees to it that all slaughtering at Birmingham's Pak Mecca Meats abattoir is in keeping with religious law, strokes a lamb's head as he waits. The lamb's eyes close in contentment for a moment, until the conveyer whirs back into action. Hussain intones the Muslim blessing, and then with a single expert swipe nearly severs the animal's head...
...often with the aid of smugglers like Mahmood. Washington believes that several al-Qaeda leaders, including security chief Saif al-Adil, are hiding in that country. Iran counters that it's impossible to seal off its rugged, 1,000-mile eastern border. "We're trying our best," Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi told TIME. "We have strong objections to al-Qaeda, politically and religiously...
...neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often, says Yusuf, it was the criminals who rented the hideouts used by al-Qaeda members, sent their coded messages from Internet caf?s and helped...
...shows promise of renewing a commitment to peace that wilted under Arafat. His promise to end the intifada and its attendant terrorism by either diplomacy or force is an exceptional step, if it is carried out. And there is room for cautious optimism, as his new security chiefs, including Mohammad Dahlan, may be more capable of asserting authority over the many political, religious and militant organizations. Rooting out terrorism is the first priority...