Word: anbar
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...According to the PowerPoint presentation, Nicholas recruited his first service members in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern by offering them beer. The presentation ended with a more serious discussion of the situation in Iraq. Referring to an operation in Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Anbar province, Gurfein emphasized the dedication of Marines currently serving overseas. “They believe in their mission,” he said. “They’re doing the best they can to spread democracy around the world.” The evening’s activities concluded with...
...insufficient antidote to the violence, and the U.S. and Iraq's new leaders have given sullen Sunnis few tangible reasons to support them. Because of security concerns, the State Department has only one envoy and one staff member from the U.S. Agency for International Development for the whole of Anbar province. As a result, reconstruction money isn't being spent in insurgent-friendly places like Fallujah. Says an aid worker in Fallujah who asked not to be named: "It's frustrating that it's taken 30 months to get someone out in the most restive part of the country...
...they have denied terrorists a base in Fallujah. But across Iraq, the insurgency hasn't been curbed. October was the fourth deadliest month for U.S. troops since they invaded Iraq in March 2003, and last week 27 more Americans died in insurgent attacks, many of them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model for U.S. success...
...across Iraq, the numbers seemed fantastic: More than 90 percent of voters in many Shi'ite and Kurdish provinces were reported to have voted for the proposed constitution in Saturday's referendum. In Anbar, a robustly Sunni region, the numbers were equally high against it. And in the swing provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, the numbers simply looked implausible...
...that is unlikely to quell the disgruntlement of Iraq's Sunnis, who make up the bulk of the insurgency. Despite the massive effort of the Sunni Arabs to defeat the constitution by marshalling a two-thirds "no" vote in three of Iraq's 18 provinces, it appears only two - Anbar and Salahudin - were able to meet that requirement. But early reports from Nineveh and Diyala left Sunnis crying fraud and fuming that no matter what they do, they will be marginalized by the Shi'ites and Kurds...