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...Iraq, however, is right now neither a war nor a peacekeeping mission; it's a counterinsurgency operation - a low-intensity conflict requiring a delicate combination of combat, policing and civil affairs operations designed to isolate guerrilla forces from the civilian population in which they shelter, and then eliminate them. The remnants of Saddam's regime know they can never muster the firepower to beat an overwhelmingly superior occupying force. Instead they rely on stealth, speed and mobility to carry out hit and run attacks designed to stretch and demoralize their enemy and his supporters, and avoid concentrating their forces which...
...that Moussaoui also wants to question at least two other al-Qaeda members in U.S. custody; one is likely to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, thought to be the mastermind of 9/11. It's a safe bet that rather than allow that, the government would take the case out of civilian courts and transfer it to a military tribunal. Air Force Colonel Will Gunn, the acting chief defense counsel for the tribunals, has said he's convinced that "we're going to be able to provide a zealous defense for all detainees brought before trial." Still, it's all but certain...
...aside by an American Administration that has effectively decided to run the country on its own. Earlier this month the U.S. ripped up previous commitments to allow Iraq's seven former opposition parties - a coalition calling itself the "leadership council" - to quickly establish an all-Iraqi provisional government. Instead, civilian administrator Paul Bremer announced plans to appoint a 25- to 30-person political council that will answer to him; U.S. officials told Time they hope to name councilors by the end of the month. Bremer modified the plan in response to Iraqi demands that the council be given more clout...
...serve as both the country's President and army chief. They say they are willing to drop that demand?if Musharraf agrees to apply Shari'a law throughout the country, a step the President, a religious moderate, is loathe to make. If he wants to save his fa?ade of civilian government and retain international support, he may have to swallow hard and make peace with two exiled former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whose parties together are strong enough to foil the clerics...
...They looked like Buddhist monks, but area residents told TIME these men were actually convicts plucked from a prison in nearby Mandalay. As some of Suu Kyi's aides alighted to speak with the "monks," several truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled out of the woods lining the road. They were armed like gang members on a rampage, brandishing sharpened bamboo staves, clubs, metal cudgels, bricks and stones...