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...population’s sense of autonomy has led to positive security results. In Ramadi, for example, Col. Sean MacFarland, commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, consulted sheiks and discovered that a major concern of potential police recruits was the safety of their families, whom al-Qaida frequently intimidated and threatened to murder. MacFarland’s brigade proposed that if tribal leaders encouraged locals to join the police force, the army could construct police stations in the locals’ neighborhoods. This active collaboration expanded the autonomy of tribal leaders and locals, giving both...
...Washington Post poll found that 69 percent of Americans believed, as Bush had suggested, that there was a direct link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida’s Sept. 11 attacks...
...Life in Iraq The situation in Baghdad is much, much better than before. I live in Baghdad. I know how it was a year ago after the bomb, after the counterattacks of the sects of the Iraqi community, after al Qaeda and al Saddamists against the Iraqi innocent people in the name of jihad or in the name of other reasons. After the implementation of the security plans, the situation gets much better and especially now in the last three months, in many areas people...
Women's rights in Iraq The situation of women as part of the society in Iraq has been so much affected by the military forces that exist and by al Qaeda attacks. They've been victimized before by the regime. As I said, I was victim of the regime but their situation improved so much after the fall of the regime. I'm talking about the political side because they effectively participated in all of the elections in Iraq. They participated in the drafting process...
...forces to happen, we have to have a very accelerated plan for equipping and supplying and training the Iraqi forces to take over because you can't just withdraw the forces and leave the chance and opportunity - you offer a gift to the al-Qaeda groups that are already in Iraq, for the Saddamists who don't believe in the political process. They will take the opportunity to come back to have power and have attacks against the innocent people. So yes, it's time, because...