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...insurgency's shift toward a religious outlook is in part driven by financial necessity: the capture of Saddam and his henchmen drained the insurgency of its former sources of funding. That forced Iraqi groups to turn to foreign financiers in places like the gulf, and they have demanded that the insurgents adopt a more radical religious identity. "After we rolled up Saddam, we hit them pretty hard, and this is what they turned to," says a senior U.S. military official. "It would appear there are not only some marriages of convenience but also some groups that have crossed over...
...embassy has scaled down its staffing. "We're all adjusting," says a U.S. official. With school now out for the summer, many of the 25,000 Americans who live here are heading out on long vacations. Hundreds of others have decided to leave for good, either relocating to gulf states like Bahrain and Dubai or returning to the U.S. "There's no doubt about it. The terrorists are winning here in terms of instilling fear in us," says an American businessman. He sent his wife and children back to the U.S. last November after al-Qaeda attacked a compound housing...
...punctuated by important moments in his. They told me about their pasts, where they lived and where they moved, what their families thought about their political views and what they felt about that. In so many words, they told me—undercover liberal supreme—that the gulf between is mostly imagined and only partly real. Political differences aren’t everything, and what’s more, they aren’t even as deep as we make ourselves believe...
...Kurds The Players: A non-Arab minority comprising 25 percent of the Iraqi population, who have enjoyed de facto autonomy under U.S. protection in northern Iraq since the Gulf War in 1991. The most politically cohesive of Iraq's ethnic communities, they are led by Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani, two leaders who have settled their factional differences in order to present a united front in pursuit of enhanced autonomy in the new Iraq. And between them, Talabani and Barzani command 70,000 "peshmerga" militia fighters...
...four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about 7:30 a.m., four young fanatics shot up the offices of oil-industry firms at two locations in the Persian Gulf coastal city. They murdered the British vice president of a Saudi company, then dragged his body from the back of their car for nearly two miles around Khobar's busy streets. Then they took their terror to Oasis, a compound of luxury residences, swimming pools and palm groves. For some 20 hours...