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...Although the virus that causes polio is highly contagious, bringing it under control is relatively straightforward because a cheap vaccine has long been available. "There is no magic to this," says Dr. Tumseh Salah, who is managing the Swat Valley vaccination program. "You immunize enough kids, and you can stop the virus." Indeed, the eradication program has been a spectacular success. In its 16 years of operation, the number of countries where polio remains a chronic problem has fallen from 125 to just six: Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. (In all of Asia, just 34 cases were reported...
...simple virtue that it wasn't concocted by Americans or their allies on the Governing Council. But members of the post--June 30 government still have to be effectively blessed by foreigners--a point not lost on Iraqis. "They cannot fix a wrong with a wrong," says Salah Hassan Habib, 22, a butcher in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. "The next government should be elected." The U.N.'s reputation in Iraq is hardly lustrous: ordinary Iraqis suffered for more than a decade under sanctions enacted in the U.N.'s name. Also, since Saddam's fall, the newly free Iraqi...
...Fighting a jihad against the Americans and their allies is something obligatory in our religion," says Wushyar Salah Hama Aref, 26. Until he was arrested last October by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Aref was a top commander in Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish terror organization. "We know that the Americans have the technology and the power," he said last Saturday, when TIME was allowed into the Kurdish-run jail to see imprisoned Ansar leaders. "But our belief is stronger...
Many ordinary Iraqis complain that the media of other Arab nations are misrepresenting the situation, painting a one-dimensional picture of chaos and widespread antipathy to the U.S. Many Iraqis attribute the distortion to lingering Arab-media sympathies toward the Saddam regime. "They are wicked people," says Salah al-Sheikh, 31, a guard at an Arab embassy. "They say Americans are occupiers, but they are here to help us." The Governing Council last week temporarily barred two popular Arab satellite networks from attending council meetings...
...former leader of Kach, the banned anti-Arab movement founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Israel's Supreme Court overruled the ban on the two Arab politicians, but Arab leaders aren't impressed. "This Zionist mentality does not recognize our presence in the country," says Sheik Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement's radical wing. Salah and his deputy were interrogated by the Shin Bet last week, in what the sheik believes was an attempt to intimidate them into silence before the election. If the Shin Bet was making a veiled threat to Salah...