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...general strike brought Karachi to a standstill. It was called by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, a six-party religious alliance, to protest sectarian violence. Days earlier, a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite mosque in the city killed 23, shortly after the assassination of prominent Sunni cleric Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. Less Than Total Recall VENEZUELA President Hugo Chávez declared himself ready to face a recall vote after the National Electoral Council confirmed that opponents had gathered more than the 2.4 million signatures required for the ballot. But officials have yet to agree on a date: should...
...ASSASSINATED. AKHMAD KADYROV, 52, Chechnya's controversial pro-Moscow President; from injuries sustained in a bombing; in Grozny. A volatile leader, he was once a fearsome jihadi mufti, or interpreter of Shari'a law, who fought for Chechnyan independence. But in 1999 Kadyrov switched sides, saying the movement was getting too religiously radical. The murdered President once said, "There have been so many attempts on my life that I have lost count...
...committed separatists who regarded him as a Kremlin stooge to some Russian security and military officials wary of his growing autonomy. One of those foes killed him on May 9 by placing a bomb inside a concrete pillar beneath the stands at Grozny's Dynamo Stadium, where the former mufti was attending a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany. Six others died in the blast and up to 89 were injured, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian troops in Chechnya. Putin's immediate response was to vow that "retribution is unavoidable...
...body parts exactly how many members of the March 11 train-bombing cell had made their last stand there - the investigators found a videotape in the rubble. On it, an intense man, flanked by two others brandishing Sterling submachine guns, warned of massacres to come. "The Brigades of al-Mufti and Ansar al-Qaeda" - or supporters of al-Qaeda - were in Spain, said Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, 35, to demand that "its troops pull out immediately from the land of the Muslims." Linking Iraq and Afghanistan to the 15th century expulsion of Muslims from Spain and the Inquisition, he demanded...
...early today." Normalization is scheduled to enter a new phase this week, with the expected announcement of election results for the Chechen presidency. Chechens had little choice but to vote for Putin's hand-picked nominee, Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, head of the Moscow-appointed administration in Chechnya. The former mufti, or chief Islamic legal authority, of Chechnya was once an anti-Russian guerrilla fighter. He rallied to the Russian cause in late 1999 because, as he tells it, he disapproved of the growing influence of radical Islamists among the rebels. It was a dangerous move--Kadyrov has since survived many...