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...Disillusioned, some former separat-ists have gone "moderate"?supporting the elections. Initially, candidate Sofi abided by the Hurriyat's call to boycott, deciding not to run from his constituency in the Kupwara district, a former rebel hotspot. But he relented. "One man came to me and said he would kill his four sons if I did not take part as there was no point going on like this," says Sofi. So he quit the alliance last month to run as an independent. "The Hurriyat is right that the elections don't address the core issue of Kashmir's status," admits...
SUDAN Back to War Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir broke off peace talks with the rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army after spla forces captured the strategic town of Torit. The government started airlifting troops to its stronghold of Juba in the rebel-occupied south and recruiting in schools and universities. The spla is fighting for greater autonomy for the Christian and animist south from the Arab and Muslim north, which dominates the government in Khartoum...
COLOMBIA Kidnappers Caught Law-enforcement officials said they have dismantled a kidnapping ring that abducted people in south and central America to fund the country's second-largest rebel group. A total of 13 suspected guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) were arrested in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Cali and Medellin following a two-year investigation. Meanwhile, the first two people to win rewards for informing on rebels appeared in disguise on live television. The government gave the pair $800 each for informing on Oswaldo Diaz Alfaro, who tried to assassinate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in April...
...when the only name most Americans recognize is bin Laden's. Other Pentagon aides leaked word that the Administration had recently considered but decided against sending commandos into Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq to knock out a clandestine chemical-weapons lab allegedly run by Ansar al-Islam, a tiny fundamentalist rebel group whose ranks are reportedly swelling with al-Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan...
...other countries in the world." When Kabbah, a former civil servant and longtime U.N. official - the U.N. Development Programme, where he worked for 21 years, publishes the report that listed Sierra Leone last - was first elected in 1996, the country was mired in a civil war whose hallmark was rebel soldiers' tendency to hack off the limbs of their victims. Kabbah's initial hold on office was so tenuous that foreign troops had to intervene to reinstate him when he was briefly ousted by disgruntled soldiers in 1997. A cease-fire agreement with the rebels paved...