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...Alas, the cessation of sectarian hostilities was too good to last. A day after the tragedy, a brief gun battle broke out between Iraqi security forces on the bridge and some Sunni insurgents in Adhamiya. And al-Qaeda's Iraqi offshoot, led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, claimed credit for an earlier rocket attack on Kadhimiya, the Shi'ite district on the other side of the bridge. Drive-by shootings at Sunni mosques in southern Iraq last Friday suggested scapegoating by some Shi'ites. And calls for a peace march after the joint prayers in Baghdad proved futile: not enough...
...position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base, neglected infrastructure, rising poverty and a murder rate that inspired old-timers to pack a gun beneath their tuxes on their way to the Mardi Gras parade, could hardly have been less equipped to cope with a catastrophe that everyone knew was coming. "Half of Louisiana is under water," former lawmaker Billy Tauzin used to say, "and the other half is under indictment." Three of the top state...
...military situation of stealth, a prime rule is for members to stay widely apart so everyone doesn't get killed at once. Also, the lone soldier on patrol in the photo captioned "Carrying On" should have been taught that when patrolling in a hostile environment, you hold your gun with both arms at the ready, since seconds count. And you don't look at the ground; you keep your eyes level and pivot right and left to search for movement or something that doesn't belong in the landscape. That's basically how you stay alive - longer. I fear that...
...Khor Abeche, like Darfur itself, lies somewhere between peace and disintegration. It was a ghost town two months ago, but villagers are returning under African Union protection. On a recent day, newly thatched huts stood beside the charred remains of others. As children played among spent gun cartridges in the village square, aid workers from World Vision distributed food under the stripped limbs of a baobab tree. "I feel safe now, but what is safe?" asks Amna, one of the nine raped in April. "I have felt safe before." It's an insecurity that will not easily go away. Several...
...process they haven't shown any indication of leaving. Even in their pique, their opposition to the constitution looks like it will be expressed with ballots rather than bullets, and in a land that for a century has seen politics come from the barrel of a gun, that can be seen as a victory for Iraqis...