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Hard-line Islamist fighters like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda group will not compromise in their campaign to create an Islamic state. But in interviews with TIME, senior Iraqi insurgent commanders said several "nationalist" rebel groups--composed predominantly of ex--military officers and what the Pentagon dubs "former regime elements"--have moved toward a strategy of "fight and negotiate." Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive...
...during Saddam's regime. The insurgents also seek a guaranteed timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal, a demand the U.S. refuses. But there are some hints of compromise: insurgent negotiators have told their U.S. counterparts they would accept a U.N. peacekeeping force as the U.S. troop presence recedes. Insurgent representative Abu Mohammed says the nationalists would even tolerate U.S. bases on Iraqi soil. "We don't mind if the invader becomes a guest," he says, suggesting a situation akin to the U.S. military presence in Germany and Japan...
...janitorial work while awaiting a ruling on his conscientious-objector application. Raised in the Bronx, Paredes joined the Navy because he was eager to get an education. Nearly five years later, he says he is ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and claims to be a victim of the "poverty draft," which he says encourages poor people with no career prospects to join the armed forces. The most famous deserter, Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, who briefly appeared to have been kidnapped in Iraq last June only to resurface...
...Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist organization in the Philippines, isn't shy about owning up to its dirty work. "We did it!" spokesman Abu Sulaiman crowed to a local radio station a few hours after a bomb on a ferry killed more than 100 passengers last February. At the time, Philippine officials scoffed at the claim because they didn't think the group had the ability to pull off such a deadly attack. (It wasn't until eight months later that the authorities acknowledged that Abu Sayyaf was indeed responsible.) Sulaiman didn't want to be taken so lightly last week...
...Adams House Social Studies concentrator has “always been interested in politics and theatre.” The Abu Ghraib Show, the first “distinctly political” show performed at the Loeb Experimental Theater in decades, is the perfect...