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...signatories include Sheik Mohammed Nur Abdullah, vice president of the Fiqh Council of North America; Sheikh Salem Falahat, director-general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan; Hasan Shariatmadari, head of the Iranian National Republicans party; and Sheikh Ikrima Said Sabri, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque. "This is a determination by mainstream, traditional Muslim scholars and authorities who cover all the branches of Islam, and that's very unusual," says David Ford, Director of the Inter-Faith Program at the University of Cambridge, who helped launch the letter in London this morning. "It is unapologetic...
...hard to imagine a starker contrast between this gracious eatery and the ravaged villages of Darfur, yet among the diners here is a man who could hold the key to peace in the devastating conflict in western Sudan. "The Sudan regime is an outlaw regime," Abdul Wahid el Nur, leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement, shouts, slamming his fist on the cafe table. "They do not respect peace accords...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...
...preparing for a token opposition presence in the new Majilis, according to Victor Kiyanitsa, until recently a senior government official and now an independent political analyst. But, he explains, "It's not even they who decide the returns, it's the regional authorities." Nazarbayev's staff targeted 77% for Nur-Otan, Kiyanitsa says, but regional governors zealously competed to show loyalty to the President and over-fulfilled their quotas. Sometimes, authoritarianism can't help itself...
...choose. His supporters argue that he must have that option in order to remain as a supervisor for the budding and still fragile democracy. With the election results, however, the new Majilis is now as totally controlled by the President, as the old one was. The victorious Nur-Otan party will fill 98 of the 107 seats, with nine remaining vacancies will be filled by the Assembly of the Peoples of Kazakhstan - a consultative body under Nazarbayev, chaired by Nazarbayev...