Phinda Madi, a prominent black critic of the way empowerment has been pursued, argues the most empowering thing for most black South Africans would be a job.

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Significantly, some leaders of the militant groups that waged a campaign of terror in the early 1990s have now followed Mr al-Madi's lead and applied to form legal parties.

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"It's a really good opportunity for us as young engineers to be prepared early for such a project, " said Ahmed Madi, 26, an engineer from Abu Dhabi who is in a training program at a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden.

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Even if the Iranian puppet, Muqtada al-Sadr, were not threatening if Americans are invited to stay to relaunch his Madi army's sectarian warfare and bring down the coalition government (in which his party is a prominent part), the Iraqis can hardly be more in favor of maintaining an American presence than we are.

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