Word: tribalization
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Pakistan, which once supported the Taliban government in Afghanistan, is now suffering an insurgency of its own. Militants aligned with al-Qaeda have not only attacked security forces in the ungoverned tribal areas; they have also sent suicide bombers to major urban areas such as Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The Pakistani army has been unable to contain the militants, and has already lost around 1,000 soldiers trying. In an attempt to gain stability, the military embarked last December on peace negotiations with militant groups. The newly elected government in Islamabad is backing the talks, and militants have agreed...
...landed himself in hot water after becoming embroiled in Kenyan tribal politics. He has contracted and fought off a virulent case of malaria. He grew up in a three-room house with neither electricity nor running water, and his parents both left school at the age of 14. But most Harvard students know him only as the man who put an end to the free booze.A man who spent much of his career eschewing the limelight, former Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam found himself at the helm of both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the College...
Perhaps with November in mind, both campaigns have focused attention on the state's seven Indian reservations, a crucial bloc that helped narrowly defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006. Both expressed support for improved federal-tribal relations and medical care. Clinton visited the Flathead Reservation, and daughter Chelsea met Thursday with a group of state tribal leaders. Obama was adopted into the Crow Tribe by the Black Eagle family just before he spoke to 3,000 supporters at the reservation's Veterans Park a few miles from the site of Custer's Last Stand. He's hoping that...
...sectarian violence, many of the women around here are widows and have no way of supporting themselves." Working with community groups in town, Starz's unit began recruiting both Shi'ite and Sunni women, paying them $8 per day. Unlike the Sons of Iraq, which is organized along tribal lines, the Daughters of Iraq is designed as a bipartisan group. Says Starz, "Everybody has gotten along perferctly harmoniously on all shifts...
...sides claim Abyei. The north has also been slow to withdraw troops from the south, and suspicions are that it will drag its feet over a referendum, promised by the CPA and due for 2011, in which the south can vote for secession and independence. Complicating the situation is tribal local rivalry in the area, which both sides try to exploit to their advantage...