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...Allawi had lost patience with all the tense back and forth. He issued a "final call" for al-Sadr to leave the shrine compound and disband his militia. And for hours that night, U.S. planes dropped bombs, gunships strafed rebel positions near the shrine, and tanks shelled militia hideaways as explosions filled the sky over the Old City with billowing smoke and a deadly orange glow. U.S. military commanders said they were merely "shaping the battlefield" in case a frontal assault was ordered. But al-Sadr is adept at divining when to back down. On Friday he promised to "turn...
...their villages, saying that the situation demanded "a real effort by the government of Sudan to provide for [the refugees'] safety and ensure progress in peace talks." In an effort to end the violence in Africa's largest country, Sudanese government officials met with leaders of two Darfurian rebel groups, who want a greater say in their rule, in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The talks, sponsored by the African Union...
...broke up briefly with rebels staging a 24-hour boycott at week's end: rebel leaders accused Khartoum of a hand in the deaths of dozens of civilians even as negotiations took place. Khartoum remained confident that it would not face sanctions. - By Simon Robinson By a Whistle CZECH REPUBLIC The coalition government of new Prime Minister Stanislav Gross survived a mandatory vote of confidence in parliament, winning by just 101 votes to 99. Gross replaced fellow Social Democrat Vladimír Spidla, who resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross...
When revolutionaries win, it's hard to remember that they were once the minority: George Washington is a portrait on the dollar bill instead of a shoeless guerrilla on a raft. But Child was a rebel. She fought against everyone who believed in living correctly instead of well. She first fought against recipes that called for the culinary ease of prepackaged powdered soup and then the dietary benefits of defatted cheese. "Fake food--I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut--is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good...
...belt. Sadr is, in other words, purely a political leader - and one quietly reviled by much of the clerical leadership. But operating in secret under Saddam's rule, he built a mass following among the Shiite urban poor, trading on the reverence for his father and grandfather, legendary rebel clerics murdered by the old regime. As Shiite resentment at the U.S. presence has grown, Sadr's record of consistent defiance of the Americans since Baghdad fell in April of 2003 has made him one of the most influential Shiite political figures in Iraq...