Word: muslim
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...problem is the map, the division of which is predicated on the principle, established last July by the Contact Group, that Bosnia will technically remain one nation but will be internally divided, with 49% of the land going to the Bosnian Serbs and 51% going to the Croat-Muslim federation. While it now appears that all parties, including the Bosnian Serbs, have agreed to the proportions, Holbrooke said that everyone has a different version of which land goes to whom...
...street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also Israel from Jewish control. The group runs a large network of social institutions: mosques, clinics, schools and charities. In recent years, it had been estimated to command the loyalty of about...
Foreign ministers of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia have agreed to meet next week for peace talks in Geneva. Earlier, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke said in Belgrade that all sides in the Balkan conflict had agreed to a divide Bosnia in half, with 51 percent going to the Muslim government and 49 percent to the Serbs. "What they haven't agreed to is who gets the 51 and who gets the 49," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. "There are three or four contentious areas that could cause problems in negotations." One of these, Waller says, is the isolated...
Nizar Halaby died in a fusillade of bullets outside his home in Beirut this morning, and Lebanon may be closer to rekindled civil war because of it. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that Halaby, a leader of the influential Habashi, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim sect, "was thought to be the person most likely to become the next musti -- or highest religious leader -- of the Sunnis." The killing, by unknown assassins, is a setback for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose government has been trying to shed the terrorist image Lebanon acquired during the 1975-1990 civil...
TheBosnian Serbsdenied responsibility for the shelling and accused the Muslim government of staging the attack to sabotage peace talks. U.N. officials said they would order no air strikes against the rebels until they could determine who was responsible. But State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns openly blamed the Serbs: "We have no doubt about the source of that attack...