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...indeed, the sheiks are preparing for hostilities - of the democratic kind. With Iraq-wide provincial elections two months away, these Anbari chieftains have banded together under the banner of the Iraqi Tribal Front, and will field candidates in several provinces. So after the compound has filled up, the chanting turns distinctly political. "We are with Nouri al-Maliki on SOFA," they shout, referring to the status of forces agreement that the Iraqi Prime Minister has signed, amid considerable domestic opposition, with...
...Yorker, and the photographs of missing persons on the wall of that Baghdad police station reminded me of the pictures and notes on walls in downtown Manhattan after 9/11. The desperation and sorrow of people whose loved ones have disappeared is very familiar. The story of Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal as a kidnap victim made me shiver, cringe and wonder whether I would be able to keep my wits in a similar situation. It also got me to thinking about the untold consequences of war. Please keep telling these stories...
Kudos to TIME for paying attention to a sad new trend in an already tragic part of the world. Pity Iraqis like al-Anbari whose plight goes unnoticed by their government and the larger world. I hope your story will make more readers stop and wonder how the people of Baghdad must feel when U.S. forces fan out across their city in search of one missing American, when not even their neighborhood police can be counted on to search for kidnapped Iraqis...
Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal began on an afternoon in Baghdad early this year while he was out buying a new cell phone. The neighborhood seemed safe; Waddah didn't bother to lock his car door. He was about to cross a narrow alley when a car screeched up, blocking his way. Two men got out, thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried...
After holding their fire during the national elections, Iraqi insurgents unleashed a volley of car bombings, shootings and kidnappings across the country last week, leaving U.S. officials with the distinct impression that Sunni political leaders can turn the violence on and off at will. Abu Abdullah al-Anbari, a field commander of insurgents, told TIME that he had been given orders by unnamed superiors not to attack Iraqis during the four days surrounding the Dec. 15 balloting to allow the vote to go forward. The goal, he said, was to get Sunnis to the polls in order to "create...