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...flip side of the newfound enthusiasm for Shiism among some in Washington is the assumption that killing Shiites has now become a priority for al-Qaeda. Princeton scholar Michael Doran, writing in the Washington Post, argues that the recent "Zarqawi letter" proposing a campaign of terror against Iraqi Shiites, "even if it is a forgery, faithfully expresses al-Qaeda's attitude toward sectarianism." This, he deduces from the implacable hatred of Shiism at the heart of the Wahabi religious tradition in Saudi Arabia and its acolytes elsewhere, and in this article - and in a lengthier exposition in Foreign Affairs...
...Perhaps. But the extremist clergy in Saudi Arabia is not the leadership of al-Qaeda, no matter how much their positions converge on many questions. Indeed, a couple of weeks after U.S. officials in Iraq first began touting the "Zarqawi" letter as "proof" that terror attacks on Shiites in Iraq were part of an al-Qaeda plot, the New York Times quietly reported that U.S. intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaeda had, in fact, rebuffed the call by the Zarqawi network in Iraq to support a campaign of terror against the Shiites. Al-Qaeda itself, it seems, is reluctant...
...speech was part of a year-long series on human rights and the War on Terror, sponsored by the HLS Committee on Human Rights Studies...
...Home Secretary since June 2001, Blunkett is responsible for dealing with international crime and terrorism. His anti-terror initiatives include provisions that allow indefinite detention of aliens who cannot be deported until they have a place to go. There have been 14 detentions in Britain under this provision...
...also warned about undermining the leadership of countries trying to fight the War on Terror, such as the government of Pakistan. “We have to be supportive and sensitive. For the future we have two choices: isolation, or finding mechanisms to put behind us divisions to find solutions for the future,” said Blunkett...