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...seeks to be rid of the corrupt and inept administration of Yasser Arafat. But its strongest element has been the West Bank and Gaza militants who waged the first intifada from 1987 to 1991; were sidelined as Arafat and his coterie of Tunis-based exiles took over following the Oslo agreements; and then launched the second intifada when Oslo hit a wall at Camp David...
...become a model for Europe. A decade after its construction, the number of bus commuters has stayed constant and 190,000 additional people now take the tram each day. An elaborate and expensive system of underground tunnels and new perimeter roads has vastly improved the traffic situation in Oslo (which also has a toll cordon, though designed to finance the new roads and not to reduce traffic). But overall, "the choices are becoming more and more stark," says Bourn, of Transport 2000. This week, as the mayor of London hovers over his sword, his counterparts around the world will...
...Najmuddin Faraj and who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, flatly denies that his group has ties to al-Qaeda or Saddam. "I never had links with Saddam's family, government, party--not in the past, not now, not inside Iraq or outside," he told the BBC last week in Oslo. Ultimately, Kurdish officials are less impressed with the group's significance than the Americans are. "They're newsworthy," says a senior KDP official. "But they have no importance for the future of Iraq." Or so he hopes. --By Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Joshua Kucera/Erbil. With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Higonnet’s accusation that conservatives are actively trying to crush and humiliate the Palestinians is just confusing. Was he asleep when conservatives and, indeed, Americans of all political stripes, supported the Oslo process and then mourned its death? Conservatives nowadays do not want to crush the Palestinians but to avoid rewarding terrorism and thereby encourage more...
...November. "Israelis voted for Sharon because they don't believe there will ever be peace with [Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat," Netanyahu told Time. "What they asked themselves in this election is, 'Who will be tougher?'" Sharon has proved he can be plenty tough. But with Labor, which signed the Oslo Peace Accords, in his cabinet, world leaders couldn't write off the possibility that Sharon might agree to a peace deal - even as Israeli tanks occupied every Palestinian city in the West Bank. But after more than two years of deadly intifadeh, says Netanyahu, "this election is a repudiation...