Rights under Oslo's foot The fifth anniversary of the Oslo Accords earned barely a second thought among Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. A new Amnesty International report helps explain why, writes Graham Usher Jericho roulette The West Bank's first-ever casino opened this week to great controversy among Palestinians. Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

Iranian Foreign Minister Kharrazi's statement on the ten-year-old fatwa and contract on the life of Salman Rushdie underlined the struggle between Iran's moderates and hard-liners. Safa Haeri asks how far the writer's predicament has really changed and talks to exiled Tunisian Islamist Rashed Ghannoushi about the future of "Islamic democracy" The fatwa that wouldn't go away Freeing Islam from the Taliban

An explosive legacy Lebanon -- a land of more than 100,000 unexploded land-mines, according to an international conference held in Geneva in 1995. Zeina Khodr in Beirut reports on the army's efforts to rid the country of these snares from the past	A question of evidence The debate on whether Sudan's Al-Shifa factory, struck last month by US missiles, was indeed producing chemical weapons remains open. Mohamed Khaled spoke to the factory's owner and his lawyer
'Hot pursuit' vies with peace Ankara has sharply criticised the US-brokered peace agreement between Iraq's rival Kurdish parties, the KDP and the PUK. Why?