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...involve getting info on the perps by grilling hood denizens (including Cedric "the Entertainer" Kyles in a fun turn), tangling with a skeptical Internal Affairs Captain (Hugh Laurie, essentially playing House on the streets) and leaving enough corpses in his wake to make the City of Angels seem like Baghdad-on-the-Pacific. It's L.A.P.D.-lirious...
...inside job from within the Sadr ranks. Only one thing is certain - the assassination has raised an outcry among Sadr's followers and threatened to push Iraq further into a relapse of sectarian violence, just as the Iraqi government prepared to lift its curfew on Sadr City, the battered Baghdad slum which is Sadr's stronghold...
...supermarket in Baghdad, Samir Abdul Karim says, "American troops should stay in Iraq for the time being because the country can't function on its own right now. If they leave; Iraq will fall into chaos and that would be no good for the American reputation." He didn't really prefer one candidate over the other, an opinion shared even by members of parliament. Says Alia Nasayif Jasim of the secular Iraqi National Accord bloc: "As Iraqis, from what we've seen of the bitterness in the American relationship with the Middle East, we don't think it matters...
Others are clear about their preferences, precisely because of what they see is the necessity of continuing America's current policy. Osama Hazim al-Shimari, a Baghdad street merchant, says: "John McCain will be better for Iraq because he's the only one who has a logical view... What do you think will happen to Iraq if America withdraws its forces? I support McCain not because he'll bring good things to Iraq, but at least what he says about withdrawing troops is honest." Kurdish legislator Bukhari Abdallah Khudur is of the same opinion because the Iraqi government...
Tahsin al-Shiekhly, spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, which oversees police and military checkpoints in the capital, said the most important thing in the American elections is not who the President will be, but whether he or she will maintain the troop support in Iraq if the Iraqi government requests it. "The U.S. has a commitment to the people of Iraq. They liberated them and they have come to rebuild the country. Whoever the next President is - even Hillary Clinton - I don't think they will withdraw troops from Iraq," he said. But so long as that concern...