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...component. U.S. military intelligence estimates that upwards of 30% of Sadr's militia leaders are former members of Saddam's armed forces. There is communication, and occasionally collaboration, between these Sunni and Shi'ite Baathists. In the spring of 2004, elements of the Sadr organization helped stoke the Fallujah rebellion. The question is, Can a military leader be found-preferably a Shi'ite who served honorably in Saddam's army-who can command the loyalty of all these groups? How many of those who served in Saddam's army can be recruited into an expanded and reorganized Iraqi armed forces...
...They speculate that casual, unthinking secularism, represented by everything from the TV schedule to Wal-Mart's groaning shelves, makes these Evangelicals feel encircled and unheeded despite their relative prosperity. The directors also wonder, as Grady puts it, "if these parents can hold back the tide of natural rebellion and cultural engulfment" that will threaten their kids in adolescence. Who knows? But in the meantime we have this coolly objective and well-made film to contemplate. And reckon with...
Dorr led a failed rebellion against Rhode Island's Governor, who refused to recognize a new state constitution that Dorr had drafted with other liberal reformers. Sentenced to life in solitary confinement and hard labor, Dorr was pardoned...
...standards of the post-communist world, Hungary’s recent history has been rather forgiving. If Hungary is capable of erupting into a full fledged government crisis, with extensive rioting and a nationally prominent Fidesz politician, the mayor of Debrecen Lajos Kosa, warning that “rebellion could break out,” other far more troubled countries, such as Serbia, Bosnia, or the quasi-independent statelet of Kosovo, are as well...
...especially the on-going civil war in Uganda, at a film screening and discussion event Wednesday night. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard African Students Association (HASA) and uNight, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in northern Uganda. Since the initial 1986 rebellion, Uganda has seen constant conflict between the government and the rebel forces which reorganized as the Lord’s Resistance Army. The conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead and 1.2 million displaced. UNight co-founder Daniella L. Boston ’05 began her presentation on the situation...