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...Mortar shells are falling once again on the International Zone, probably the handiwork of radical Shi'ite militias. "After 2003, Iraqi politics got so complicated, with so many parties, and so many foreign countries got involved that it's like the whole political scene is built on straw," says Hazem Shammari, a professor of political science at Baghdad University. "If one thing goes wrong, we'll go back to [civil war]." (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...uncertainty, Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji said that, after negotiating with the Iraqi government, an agreement had been reached that militants would not disarm. "Jaish al Mahdi [the Mahdi Army] will not surrender its weapons to the state," he said, "because they are weapons of national resistance...
...Faeza and Khattab landed at Phoenix International Airport. It was 111°F (44°C) outside--hotter than in Baghdad that day. "Is this America?" she asked the IRC guide who picked her up, a fellow Iraqi named Hazem Olwan. "We all know the Americans have high technology," Olwan told her, "but they can't do anything about the weather." The heat was just the first in a series of disappointments. "Many refugees have an idea of America without any negatives," says Robin Dunn Marcos, head of the Phoenix office of the IRC. "Their expectations are not exactly met." Faeza noticed...
When Iraq's tough-talking interim Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan starts talking about postponing the January 30 election, it's clear that the issue is being considered at the highest levels of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's administration - despite official insistence that the poll will go ahead on schedule. Calls for an election delay from within the government aren't new - interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni, has publicly called for a UN assessment on the feasibility of voting on January 30. But Shaalan has until now been one of the more bellicose officials in Allawi's government when...
...Early indications also suggested that some of Allawi's allies were willing to, in U.S. political parlance, "go negative." Defense Minister, Hazem Shalan (who is standing on an independent list), fired the opening shot of his own campaign Tuesday when he accused the United Iraqi Alliance, assembled at the behest of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, of being "an Iranian list." Shaalan proclaimed Iran as Iraq's primary enemy, and urged Iraqis to resist to the death what he called the efforts of the "black horde" in Tehran to turn Iraq into a theocracy...