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Still, preparations have begun. One option for ousting Saddam entails using a broad-based Iraqi rebel force. The Iraqi opposition, though, is a thicket of political rivalries and ethnic divisions. The U.S. is taking steps to organize various groups. Earlier this year Washington reached past its main client, Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, and re-engaged with defectors from the Iraqi army who, like Saddam and the country's ruling elite, are Sunni Muslims. The U.S. plans to convene a conference of more than 300 Iraqi opposition leaders in Europe this spring...
...Then there are the new taxes, like the $10 per ticket charge put into place last fall to help pay for new security measures. Given its purpose, this particular fee is unlikely to ruffle any feathers, but if it is simply the first of many new hikes, passengers could rebel and refuse to fly, further deflating the market...
SIERRA LEONE Facing the Music Rebel leader Foday Sankoh made his first court appearance almost two years after he was jailed under emergency regulations. Sankoh and 49 supporters of the Revolutionary United Front were charged with murder and conspiracy to murder in connection with the deaths of 19 people outside his home in May 2000. The charges came days after President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah lifted a four-year-old state of emergency that allowed detention without trial. Sankoh, who was remanded without bail, is expected to be charged separately by a war-crimes tribunal...
...tells stories of her brother’s near encounters with death as a rebel leader fighting the Taliban...
Second, Daschle’s concern that we’re somehow forgetting about al Qaeda is similarly misguided. Right now, 160 U.S. Special Forces troops are training local soldiers in the Basilan island jungle of the Philippines to combat a Muslim rebel group—Abu Sayyaf—that has kidnapped an American missionary couple. Abu Sayyaf is part of the Southeast Asian wing of al Qaeda. By disabling Abu Sayyaf’s training camps and eradicating their power base in the southern Philippines, U.S. troops are preventing the growth of al Qaeda in the Pacific...