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...officials for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But there is a longer-term worry that goes beyond any possible Syrian connections-that Fatah al-Islam is one of a group of armed, extremist factions that have been spawned in the triangle of political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli. Those groups include Iraqi insurgents, the mysterious Palestinian faction holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston hostage in Gaza, and the radical Salafist cells that have multiplied in Saudi Arabia and across North Africa all the way to Morocco. Taken together, these groups threaten the entire Middle East...
When Starcevich went back to the Army in 2005, he specifically requested to be posted with an infantry unit. "I want the nitty-gritty," he told his father. But when he arrived in Baghdad, it was worse than he'd expected. "Hell has an address after all," he wrote to his mom in an e-mail at the time...
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...good news comes with caveats, of course. The removal of AQI's havens in Anbar may ultimately hurt the terrorists' ability to blow up markets in Baghdad, but it hasn't yet. As I reported in September 2005, there is also the scandalous reality that an alliance with the tribes was proposed by U.S. Army intelligence officers as early as October 2003 and rejected by L. Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority on the grounds that "tribes are part of the past. They have no place in the new democratic Iraq." The damage caused by that myopic stupidity may never...
...anything, al-Qaeda has grown even more deadly since Zarqawi's death, and the rate of suicide attacks has escalated sharply in recent months in response to the U.S. military "surge" in Baghdad. In the latest attack, at least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a cafe in Mandali, a small Kurdish town on the Iranian border...