Word: alleyways
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...cracked the insurgency's command and control or eroded its strength. "Our intelligence on this stuff," the source said, "was never as good as it should be." Al-Rubaie says this is the one area where his people have an edge: "This is our country. We know every single alleyway." That's the basis on which al-Shahwani will try to build a successful counterinsurgency--and a truly sovereign nation. --With reporting by Michael Ware and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad
...plaintiffs and defendants traipse up a dirt-packed alleyway in Najaf to a courtyard filled with women draped in black and men wearing suit jackets over religious robes. Trials are held in small, barren rooms where judges and supplicants sit on the floor. Though most cases involve family law and property disputes, the court also handles criminal charges, according to Husam al-Husseini, 33, a confidant of al-Sadr's. People caught drinking or having sex outside of marriage are punished with a whip. Christians face the same penalties as Muslims. "Iraq is an Islamic country...
...challenge of bringing order to Iraq is apparent as Dhahir's team makes the rounds of the capital. On a narrow, unpaved Baghdad alleyway lined with raw sewage, eight of Dhahir's colleagues set out to find two men who allegedly killed a shopkeeper. There's little doubt when they reach the right house. Scrawled in red paint across the length of a mud-brick outer wall is a warning: THIS HOUSE IS WANTED FOR BLOOD. Abdul Aziz Salman, a local grocer, says he painted the message after he watched the two men who live there gun down his brother...
...bangs that produced mini-mushroom clouds of white and gray smoke. Shrapnel fell on the road and slammed against the wall. Somewhere behind me, I heard glass shatter. After one particularly loud blast, I heard a woman scream in fear from inside one of the houses along the alleyway...
...hour before the first mound fell silent; the second roared intermittently for 15 more minutes. By this point, Mohammed, having convinced a local man to guide him to the explosions by a safer route than mine, had arrived at the church compound by the alleyway. We backed away along the lane, keeping an eye out for shrapnel. Where the alley met the main road, we turned out of sight of the explosions...