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...Jordanian extremist Musab al-Zarqawi, are seen as responsible for suicide bombings that indiscriminately target Iraqi civilians - and also for the gruesome kidnapping and beheading of foreign civilians - they are a problem not only for the new government, but also for its Arab neighbors and even for the more nationalist element of the insurgency...
...diplomat and public official, Klestil was elected to the post that had been tarnished by the Nazi past of his predecessor Kurt Waldheim. In contrast, Klestil spoke out against Austrian complicity in the Holocaust, paid the first visit by an Austrian President to Israel, and opposed the Austrian nationalist Freedom Party's participation in the government. Klestil, shown below, is succeeded by Heinz Fischer, who was elected in April...
...alleged motive: fears that evidence of al-Qaeda involvement would drive the electorate - which bitterly opposed Spain's support for the Iraq war - to vote for the Socialists in elections on March 14. "We are faced with two versions," says Jordi Jané, a representative of the moderate Catalan nationalist CiU party. "A police version and a political version. The police had discounted ETA by Friday morning, while the government - though it opened a second line of investigation into an Islamic attack - continued to blame ETA." Whom will Spaniards believe? The Socialists (PSOE) contend that voters answered that question...
...from over. U.S. officials have come to recognize that the insurgency is in fact a diverse movement - some of its elements being foreign fighters such as the Jordanian Qaeda-linked militant Musab al-Zarqawi, others being former officers of the old army or ordinary Sunni Iraqis guided by nationalist or Islamist beliefs, or both...
...Your report on the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi's victory presented one of the best analyses yet of Indian politics. But I want to make it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but under the constraints of governing coalitions, it has taken a more secular stance. The 2002 Gujarat riots, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed, were indeed a blot, but India remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President...