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...Marwan is already a battle-hardened insurgent, a jihadi foot soldier in Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaeda in Iraq. Like the bulk of insurgents, he is a Sunni Muslim from the former ruling minority community. In his hometown, Fallujah, he is known for his ferociousness in battle and deep religiosity. Marwan asked his commander to consider him for a suicide mission last fall but had to wait until the beginning of April for his name to be put on the list of volunteers. "When he finally agreed," Marwan recalls, "it was the happiest...
...signed in Damascus on Dec. 28, which would have granted additional political clout to Lebanon's Muslim majority while curbing the influence of the Christians. Since 1943, when Lebanon won independence from France, an unwritten agreement has required that the President be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shi'ite Muslim. The December accord gave the Muslims greater representation in the executive and the legislative branches. President Amin Gemayel at first praised the plan, but he quickly changed his mind when fellow Christian leaders voiced concern that the pact would...
Does anyone believe that removing the causes will eliminate terrorism? What will it take? The destruction of Israel? The conversion of all Sunni Muslims to the Shi'ite faith? The eradication of any Western influence on Islam? The crowning of Gaddafi as Sultan of North Africa? And will any of that satisfy the I.R.A., the Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigades? Brian Eddolls New York City Championship Play...
...RELEASED. FLORENCE AUBENAS, 44, French foreign correspondent for the Paris daily Lib?ration; after being held captive in Iraq for more than five months; in Baghdad. Aubenas, who was kidnapped with her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi by Sunni insurgents, received euphoric media coverage and public attention upon her return to France. The French government had negotiated for her release for months, and said no ransom was paid. "My kidnappers told me that I was as famous as Lady Di in France," said Aubenas after arriving in Paris...
...changed a bit. Yes, the Jan. 30 election was inspiring, but the good vibrations have long since evaporated. In recent months the intelligence community has concluded that the Iraqi insurgency is more coherent than previously supposed-with a collegial, if not strictly defined, leadership network, reliable funding sources and Sunni fighters far more adept than the nine-week wonders being produced for the new government by U.S. trainers. There is a growing fear that the myopia of the current Shi'ite leadership in Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that...