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...Darfur the days of moral clarity, of easily identifiable good guys and bad guys, are long gone. Ahmed is a Maharia, an Arab--the overwhelming majority of whom take no part in the war. And the men who attacked his village are African rebels who rose up against oppression but also mete it out themselves. The Darfur conflict today bears little resemblance to the one that seized international attention four years ago. The rebels are splintered into as many as 20 competing factions; groups of janjaweed militias, dissatisfied with the rewards promised by the government, are crossing sides to join...
...rebel factions adopt names imbued with idealism, like the Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance and the United Front for Liberation and Development, but their political goals are ill defined, and their chief concern seems to be maintaining their fiefs against rivals rather than protecting the civilians they claim to represent. Alliances form, only to break again, often for no greater reason than the personal ambitions of their leaders and the inevitable clashes they provoke. "It's like a play," says Azzedine Zerual, a project director with unicef in north Darfur. "'You are my friend today, but you will be my enemy...
...owes much to that Washington ice cream cone, there is cause for concern. While China remains pre-occupied by Taiwan, its navy and air force are increasingly expanding their reach in ways that suggest it is flexing its military might beyond that island, which mainland China regards as a rebel province. Last year, Beijing tested an anti-satellite weapon and Pentagon officials believe it has been behind hacker attacks on Pentagon computer systems. The report says China's long-range strategic missile force - capable of hitting the U.S. - continues to grow, as does its arsenal of ship-killing cruise missiles...
TURKEY-IRAQ BORDER Turkish troops hunt Kurdish rebel targets...
...Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...