Word: sectarian
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...What are Timor's chances of securing lasting peace and democracy? Very, very good. We will go through hiccups like this time and again until finally we consolidate in a few years. Look at Singapore and Malaysia 50 years ago, with their sectarian violence. And such violence has cost thousands of lives in Indonesia. We just have to stay focused and not lose hope...
...Iraq is an island of relative stability amidst the chaos and bloodshed that wreak havoc in the rest of the country. In fact, with the Kurds boxed in on all sides by jealous and often unfriendly neighbors, that image has always been a bit misguided. But lately the sectarian tensions that surround the Kurdish enclave have begun to make their presence felt more strongly, threatening not just the Kurds' way of life but U.S. hopes for bringing some measure of peace and stability to all of Iraq...
...military and diplomatic officials have claimed that radical cleric Muqtada Al Sadr - accused by the U.S. of sectarian reprisals in Baghad and elsewhere in southern Iraq - and the country's largest Shi'ite party have started to send in small numbers of their armed loyalists. The status of Kirkuk, officially to be decided in a referendum by the end of 2007, is one of the most contentious issues facing the new Iraqi government; though claimed by the Kurds, it is controlled by Baghdad, which is reluctant to part with its vast oilfields...
...counterterrorism official says al-Zarqawi's attempts at reinvention may stem from tactical considerations that are due to the changing nature of his mission. Having fomented a sectarian conflict in Iraq--which he vowed to do as early as 2004--the Jordanian has been consciously adopting a lower profile. He went out of his way, for example, to set up a council of jihadist groups, under the leadership of Abu Abdallah Rashid al-Baghdadi, a previously unknown figure. The objective, says the official, is to put an Iraqi face on the jihad. "He's savvy enough to realize...
...welcome political and business leaders to Egypt for a World Economic Forum gathering later this month. The bombings underscored Mubarak's inability to eliminate the terrorist threat, which has hurt the country's $7 billion tourism industry. But that is only one of the regime's problems. Long-simmering sectarian tensions erupted into rioting and street fighting between Muslim fundamentalists and Coptic Christians in Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote rigging in last November's parliamentary elections--an embarrassing episode...