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Bosnia is a relatively new target for the Wahhabis. The Saudis have spent some $400 million there since 1993, initially to help Bosnian Muslims fight the Serbs and then to rebuild the country and to missionize. The thrust of their message is that Bosnia's comparatively secular Muslims have strayed from the true path. A book distributed by Active Islamic Youth, a group in Bosnia founded with Saudi aid, is called Beliefs That We Have to Correct. In a high-profile case last December, a Bosnian Muslim who claimed to be a member of Active Islamic Youth (the group denied...
...committee of administrators and students, chaired by new Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, will determine how to rebuild a portion of the QRAC for dance space. The Rieman Center—which has recently been reappropriated by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—will meanwhile continue to house dance space for at least another year, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...scale of the military and financial commitment required to stabilize and rebuild Iraq has prompted the realization in Washington that the U.S. needs UN support even more in peacetime than it did in going to war. The ongoing security crisis in Iraq was underscored by a deadly bomb blast during Friday prayers at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing...
...Given the burgeoning costs and complexities involved in the U.S. effort to rebuild Iraq after taking out Saddam Hussein, the fact that "regime change" is being discussed at all is evidence of rising exasperation with Kim. In the past year, the Dear Leader has repudiated all past nuclear bargains and treaties, including the Agreed Framework and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, all the while hurling provocative invective at the U.S. Kim's government acknowledges it has been carrying out a clandestine program to make bombs from enriched uranium. North Korea is believed to have enough fissile material for at least...
There will always be a price to pay for freedom and security, and some mistakes will be made, even when intelligence is received from reliable sources. But the fact is that the Iraqi people, enslaved for 30 years by Saddam's crushing and terrifying government, can now begin to rebuild their lives. And we are no longer threatened by Iraq's possible use of horrific weapons. BARRETT C. CRANER Pleasanton, Calif...