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...found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling party called for greater independence for the autonomous region. Artur Mas of the Catalan-nationalist Convergence and Union coalition called for a new autonomy statute that would give Catalonia separate representation in the E.U. and other international bodies, and the final say on its public finances. In exchange, Mas offered to support the governing Popular Party in Madrid. The demands were immediately rejected...
Historical analysis also suggests that the rise of nationalism is a response to humiliation and defeat, he said, citing the growth of strong nationalist sentiment in Nazi Germany...
...jihadi camps or fundamentalism within its borders. The reason isn't hard to fathom. In October 2001 two Islamic fundamentalist parties with a history of links to terror groups were elected as part of a four-way electoral alliance led by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The accession of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote to power in Bangladesh rang alarm bells. Islamic Oikya Jote is open about its sympathies: it is well known for its support of Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The party's membership largely duplicates that...
...sacrificed. Then there is Abraham's Covenant with God. Many Jews (and some conservative Christians) believe it granted the Jewish people alone the right to the Holy Land. That belief fuels much of the Israeli settler movement and plays an ever greater role in Israel's hostility toward Palestinian nationalist claims. "Our connection to the land goes back to our first ancestor. Arabs have no right to the land of Israel," says Rabbi Haim Druckman, a settler leader and a parliamentarian with the National Religious Party. This argument infuriates Palestinian Muslims--especially since the Koran claims that Abraham...
...members of the conservative Tory party, including leader Iain Duncan Smith, but prompted jeers from his fellow Labour members, 53 of whom staged a rally Tuesday night, protesting the possibility of military action in Iraq. The Labour rebels were joined by several other MPs, including most of the Scottish Nationalist contingent and four Welsh representatives...