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This weekend's bombings may be the latest evidence of that effort. In the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amhariya in north Baghdad, where Sunni Awakening groups allied with the U.S. have fought and largely quelled the presence of al-Qaeda over the past year, a suicide bomber blast tore through a meeting of the Awakening leadership Saturday night, injuring Abu al-Abed, the local head of the movement, residents said...
Moments later, a blond woman runs out, hands in the air. It is the informant, and the terrorists have draped her in a suicide-bomber vest. Nobody knows whether it has been timed to detonate. For several minutes she stands there, face contorted with fear. Then an officer shouts, "Take the vest off slowly!" The woman slips it off and moves across the street to safety. The noise subsides, the scenario ends, and the teaching begins. This has all been a training exercise, part of four days of urban-warfare education with nearly 250 first responders--police, firefighters, EMTS...
...population today is only 25 families, most of whose adult members work for the training program. They include role players in the action scenarios, like Annalisa Kvamme, a mother of five, who played the blond woman wearing the suicide-bomber vest. Living in Playas has its challenges: six children in town are bused to Animas, 20 miles away, for school. It's 37 miles to the nearest supermarket, 85 miles to a two-screen movie theater. The town has a Baptist church and a bowling alley named Copper Pins, where beer and wine will go on sale next month...
...sharp contrast of old and new Belfast raised one overriding question: Did Northern Ireland's Catholics get anything they wanted? Northern Ireland, after all, still belongs to the Queen. I asked a former IRA car bomber. "We got absolutely nothing," Marion said. "We were betrayed...
Wire sources also reported that a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of Basra police commander Abdul Jalil Khalaf. Khalaf was unharmed but three other police were killed. Sadr supporters also clashed with Iraqi police in the southern towns of Hilla and Kut. With a curfew now in place across southern Iraq and in Baghdad, few in the Iraqi capital see a drop in the renewed violence coming anytime soon...