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...eased, the mutual antagonism will begin to dissipate. But until then, the prevailing mood for Americans and Iraqis is one of fear--fear of being caught in a suicide attack or a roadside bombing, fear of unemployment, fear of the unknown. "Fear is in our blood," my translator Ali Shaheen told me last week. "We fear even the future, what it may be hiding from us." With the handover of power just two months away, Iraq's future is closer, and scarier, than ever...
...group of al-Sadr's rivals appears to be taking matters into its own hands. Locals say the gunmen in the Volvo came from a new group calling itself the Thulfiqar Army, seemingly named for a famed two-pronged sword that in Shi'ite tradition was used by Imam Ali, the martyred son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad. Two weeks ago, the group began distributing leaflets ordering al-Sadr to leave Najaf immediately or face death. Since then, residents say, Thulfiqar has killed up to four Mahdi Army militiamen, a figure challenged by al-Sadr officials, who claim...
...cleric has little widespread support among mainstream Shi'ites. But al-Sadr's rise has alarmed senior Shi'ite clerics, who view him as an upstart demagogue. Al-Sadr's troops have regularly clashed with the more powerful Shi'ite militia known as the Badr Brigade. Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the most prominent Shi'ite leader in Iraq, has ordered all Shi'ite factions to avoid further confrontation with al-Sadr's men, fearing it would lead to fratricidal Shi'ite violence, but, Iraqi intelligence sources say, Thulfiqar could be a splinter faction of the Badr Brigade working independently...
...claiming to be Saddam's lawyer. "The family has refused to allow Verges to represent [Saddam]," Rashdan insists. Not so, says Verges. In a cluttered Paris office decorated with African carvings and bronze Buddhas, he offers up a two-paragraph letter, apparently mailed from Switzerland by Saddam's nephew Ali Barzan al-Tikriti, asking Verges to help his uncle. The letter's authenticity could not be verified; alTikriti slipped out of Switzerland last month, and Verges doesn't know where al-Tikriti...
...with Indian composer A.R. Rahman. You can already see it in the critical and commercial success of novelists like Kureishi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy. Their success has led the way for a slew of South Asians, including Michelle de Kretser (from Sri Lanka), Monica Ali (from Bangladesh) and Mohsin Hamid (from Pakistan...