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...camp. "The heavy pressure from European and Arab leaders on Arafat produced results," says Palestinian Legislative Council member Muawiya al-Masri. But it has also further strained relations within the Fatah movement, which dominates Palestinian politics and has been riven by intifadeh-related infighting. The moderate Abu Mazen is unpopular among Palestinian radicals, and some Fatah leaders have been busy smearing the new PM and his internal-security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, by painting them as stooges of the U.S. and Israel. Arafat, the only Fatah central committee member to vote against Abu Mazen's nomination, will continue...
...plans into a humiliating political disaster. Many Shiites there had initially welcomed Israel's 1982 invasion, feeling that it liberated them from the Palestine Liberation Organization forces that had dominated the country. But when Israel dug in for a long-term occupation, and the U.S. Marines propped up an unpopular pro-Western government, radical Shiite groups rose to the fore. Taking the lead in attacking Israeli and U.S. troops with everything from sniper fire to suicide bombs, they forced Reagan to completely abandon Lebanon in less than 18 months...
Soldiers initially told not to respond to looters unless their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes...
...biology classes were a short step from bioterrorism). Police departments in New York and Colorado have been monitoring the activities of peacenik demonstrators, and only recently ended those programs under outside legal pressure. How long will it be before the FBI turns its eyes towards other groups unpopular with the incumbent administration? Under a future liberal president, could mainstream anti-abortion organizations find themselves investigated for ties to abortion clinic bombers...
...persecutors of HRCF charge the group with discrimination, but fail to produce a victim—except for the group’s legitimacy and right to promote unpopular beliefs...