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...focus on the war—exert most of their energy explaining themselves. As they try to prove that they understand the complexities of Iraq and care about the continuing tragedy, mawkish sentimentality and ham-fisted didacticism join forces to drain the project of all dramatic coherence. After curfew in Samarra, in Iraq’s volatile Sunni triangle, two Iraqi teenagers approach an American checkpoint. Unarmed and submissive, the teenagers reflexively put up their hands—and the Americans respond by throwing the both off the bridge. One drowns. It’s a shocking incident...
...started with an argument in a university cafeteria between Shi'ite and Sunni students, and ended in a violent riot that engulfed several Muslim districts of Beirut, leaving four people dead and the city locked down under a nighttime curfew. Lebanon's bickering political bosses have released the genie of sectarian rage, and it is by no means certain that it can be coaxed back into the bottle...
There have been at least eight murders in New Orleans in the first week of 2007, including Hill’s. This sudden increase in homicides has Mayor C. Ray Nagin and police Superintendent Warren J. Riley considering a curfew to help curb the violence...
...With no daytime curfew in effect, shoppers milled around stores in Karadah, a neighborhood in central Baghdad where the streets were mostly quiet.? But other parts of the city sounded with the unrelenting rhythm of Iraq's daily violence, which carried on as usual.? Two parked cars exploded in a mixed Sunni-Shi'ite area of northwestern Baghdad, killing 37 people and wounding 76 others.? Earlier in the day, another car bomb went off in Kufa, a Shi'ite town about 100 miles south of Baghdad.? That blast killed 31 people and wounded another 58.? Afterward a mob swarmed...
...Iraqi military is not keeping its end of the bargain. Although there are tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers in the city (in addition to the tens of thousands of police), they have, with remarkable consistency, managed not to be where they are needed most. Despite the weekend-long curfew, supposedly enforced by the Iraqi forces, there seemed little by way of security forces activity restricting the movement of Shi'ite mobs seeking vengeance for the Sadr City bombings...