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The Rev Al Sharpton, the most influential black leader in New York, said he continued to believe that her story was not a hoax.
ECONOMIST: A vacuum
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Most of the main Shia parties now endorse the draft, as does the most influential Shia religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, though a radical preacher, Muqtada al-Sadr, has offered no clear guidance.
ECONOMIST: Ballots amid the bullets and bombs | The
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One promising development came in May 2006 when Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and influential leader of Fatah, joined forces in an Israeli prison with Abed al-Halak Natashe, a trusted spokesman for Hamas, in endorsing a twostate proposal that could unite the two Palestinian factions.
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