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...some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly Dari and Afghan social graces burnished by his earlier visits to the country (his 2002 trek across Afghanistan formed the basis of his best-selling travel memoir The Places In Between). His first project was to rid the area of 900 cubic meters of trash-a triumph that earned him much...
...other hand, some Sunnis were accusing the U.S. of siding with the Shi'ite-led government to allow, even encourage, the militias to run amok in the wake of the Sadr City bombings. Harith al-Dari, who heads the largest Sunni clerical group, declared: "The government and the occupation forces are preparing the suitable environments to the militias and killing gangs to attack our people...
...clear al-Dari reveled in his role as the rebellious outsider; it was, after all, the part he was born to play. In a society where family background is often the main measure of political legitimacy, al-Dari's credentials are impeccable. His grandfather was Sheikh Dari, a tribal leader who killed a British colonial officer and set off the 1920 Iraqi rebellion against British rule. U.S. and Iraqi government officials believe the powerful insurgent group named after that uprising - the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution - is led by Harith al-Dari's son Muthanna. Father and son both deny...
...Despite his harsh anti-American rhetoric, U.S. officials have made at least two clandestine attempts to negotiate with Harith al-Dari; the talks never got very far because the cleric could never trust the Americans, and they believed he was actively involved in the insurgency. The U.S. was also never fully convinced that al-Dari would be able to rally the entire Sunni community behind...
...opportunity to do just that. If al-Dari plays his cards right in the next few weeks, he could emerge as the single most influential Sunni figure in Iraq. And the Americans will undoubtedly come calling again...