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...sentence "inappropriate" and suggesting the matter could be resolved by throwing out the case. But Aghajari, a popular figure who lost a leg in the Iran-Iraq War, refused to appeal his sentence, challenging the judiciary to execute him. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, warned he would unleash "popular forces" - widely assumed to mean the vigilante Basij militia - if reformers and conservatives failed to end their political sparring. The threat was also thought to be directed at the students, but they remained defiant. CYPRUS Annan's Plan The United Nations gave Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders a peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...even if the unpopular government of General Pervez Musharraf survives the inevitable anger in the streets that a U.S. war with Iraq would unleash, Pakistan's bitter dispute with India over Kashmir will remain, posing a constant threat of war between two nations with nuclear arms. Weaver, a foreign correspondent for the New Yorker, is a lucid and compelling guide through the nasty predicament that is Pakistan. Just don't expect her to be a comforting one. --By Richard Lacayo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Islamic Bomb | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Targeting Saddam's weapons of mass destruction would be an urgent but delicate task. Though Iraq did not unleash such weapons last time, U.S. war planners take seriously the prospect that Saddam would use them in a war aimed explicitly at removing him. In a letter from the cia to Congress released last week, the agency said the chance of Saddam's unleashing such weapons against U.S. troops once an invasion begins is "pretty high." That puts such weapons at the top of the Pentagon's hit list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Battle Plan: The Tools Of War | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Administration claims the fighting should produce a swift, relatively painless victory, with Saddam gone in weeks. That's based largely on the presumption that his power is brittle, large segments of his army will surrender and his command will be decapitated before he can unleash his weapons of mass destruction. While outside experts say the war will probably go well, given U.S. air and technological superiority, they warn that the U.S. can't assume easy success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Questions To Ponder | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...hang around outside Rome's Colosseum dressed as gladiators and posing for snapshots with tourists might seem to have found an easy way of making a living. No longer. The city has new rules decreeing the sesterces they'll be able to charge for saying, "On my command, unleash hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/8/2002 | See Source »

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