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...Sadr does have one potential trump card: his strident anti-Americanism has helped him broaden his support base, so that many Iraqi Sunnis regard him as the only Shi'ite leader they can trust. Sunni groups contributed men and material to support the Mahdi Army's uprisings against U.S. forces, and elements of the Mahdi Army fought alongside Sunni insurgents in the battle of Fallujah in fall 2004. "He is somebody who has fought against the occupying forces," says Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, the leading Sunni clerical body. "All other Shi'ite leaders...
...Hugo Chavez - delivered 5 million gallons of heating oil at a 40% discount to low-income Philadelphia residents. Fattah says he doesn?t understand the objections of many congressional conservatives who feel U.S. cities should not be helping improve the image of Chavez, one of President Bush?s most strident critics. "The U.S. buys 1.5 million barrels of oil from Venezuela each day at full price," says Fattah, "so why would anyone complain about getting some at almost half price...
...perhaps the most distracting production element was the music, which failed to sustain the dramatic tension or even complement the play’s overall tone. Instead, its strident entrances seemed to unnecessarily barge in with every set change and occasionally even clashed with the scene’s actual dialogue...
...Prairie”’s tone is usually genial and nostalgic. The strident politicking of Young’s previous outing, “Greendale,” has been replaced by a sober remembrance of things past...
...Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. Despite Abbas' ban on the public display of weapons, members of the gang can still be seen on Gaza's streets, openly toting their M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles. And Abu Samhadana has become a strident critic of Abbas and his henchmen, whom he views as ineffectual. "The reason for the chaos is the weakness of the Palestinian Authority," he says. "It is weak because it is totally corrupt...