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...weapons and munitions that are used against Iraqis and against our own forces." Obama then pursued Barbara Boxer's previous line of questioning: If Iran is such a threat to Iraq, why was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeted with open arms and apparently a lot of official kissing in Baghdad last month? "A visit like that," Crocker said, avoiding the question, "should be in the category of a normal relationship...
Lesson Three: A good time for the insurgents to renew their bloody acts in Baghdad would be mid-August, when Petraeus and other American commanders will come to the end of what he called a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" following the departure of the last surge troops in July. Hardcore jihadists like the fighters of al-Qaeda in Iraq want American forces to stay, not go. They enjoy the opportunity to confront them with guerrilla warfare and care little about what that does to Iraq. They want the fight to go on. Al-Qaeda in Iraq...
...Sunnis worship God; Shi'ites worship God - and the imams," says Tareq Sammaree, offering a bumper-sticker putdown of the Shi'ite devotion to their pious human heroes, Ali and Hussein. The 58-year-old Sunni is a former professor at Baghdad University and a long-time Ba'ath Party member; he is not particularly fond of his Shi'ite countrymen. He claims he and his son were kidnapped by a Shi'ite militia and tortured for over a year at the Jadiriya prison in Baghdad, and that he does not know the fate...
...There may be nothing unusual about such sectarian Muslim disputation in Baghdad, but in Dublin, it's a relative novelty. Refugees from Iraq are a new feature of predominantly Catholic Ireland's growing Muslim community - estimated by its leaders to number around 40,000, making it Ireland's third largest religion - and many have brought their Iraqi rivalries with them into exile. While the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Dublin are Sunnis, the trend is reversed among the Iraqi immigrant population...
...Petraeus and Crocker, many Iraqis remain pessimistic about the weeks and months ahead. The country is still reeling from the fresh wave of violence brought on by Maliki's disastrous military offensive against Sadr's militia that began in Basra two weeks ago. On Tuesday, Sadr City - the sprawling Baghdad Shi'ite slum that is the capital's largest neighborhood and a stronghold of the Mahdi Army - remained locked down as fighting continued between militia fighters and Iraqi and American forces. Politicians from a number of parties warned of an impending humanitarian crisis...