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...they do it the same way they did before it will fail," said Mahmoud Othman, a member of Iraq's parliament of the counterinsurgency effort. And President Bush surely knows by now that the U.S. and Iraqi government can't afford to fail too many more times...
...democratically chosen leaders. Six months ago, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan startled the world by announcing that he will voluntarily dethrone himself to encourage democracy in his country. In nearby Nepal, King Gyanendra moved in the opposite direction, claiming absolute power for himself and reinstating his parliament only after his people rose up to protest his rule by fiat. Similar, though far more peaceful, demonstrations took place in Thailand, against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The country appeared headed toward political chaos until King Bhumibol stepped in this spring and urged the contending parties to settle their differences...
...source of the looming chaos is not just the usual Israeli-Palestinian antagonism. Monday's attacks on the Palestinian parliament and government offices by gunmen of the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas are a reminder that tensions between the Palestinian factions are escalating into low-intensity civil war - one in which the U.S. could suffer, as in Somalia, as a result of aligning itself too closely with factions viewed with hostility by many of those on the sidelines...
...Weeks after a parliament election, Zarqawi's group takes credit for suicide bombings against Shiites in Karbala and a police station north of Baghdad...
...Some new details emerging about the suspects are worrying in that respect. Wajid Khan, a Muslim Member of Parliament, says he was invited to speak last year at a mosque in the suburb of Mississauga, where several of the young men now charged were members. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, the oldest of those charged, was a volunteer in the mosque and introduced Khan, in the process accusing Canadian soldiers of going to Afghanistan to rape Muslim women. Khan says he defended the Canadian military, and many of the people gathered were also offended by Jamal?s comments But his story...