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Monday’s incident marked the second time this year that Chen has been robbed by an armed assailant. The first robbery occurred during winter break, on Friday, Jan. 2.
The Shiite challenge is different from the Sunni insurgency. Instead of guerrillas attacking from the shadows and melting back into the civilian population, Moqtada al-Sadr has built a grassroots infrastructure for insurrection, with support structures in local mosques dotted around the country recruiting young men for his "Army of...
The grisly death of four American civilian security contractors in Fallujah - combined with a roadside bomb that killed five U.S. soldiers nearby - has elicited an unusual degree of hand-wringing back in the U.S. So much so that the White House felt compelled to affirm that the killings would not...
Part of the Fallujah incident's impact came from the fact that most of the media chose to describe the four civilian victims as "contractors," a word that conjured an image of engineers helping to rebuild the shattered country. In reality they were hired guns, former U.S. special forces guys...
The real reason for Fallujah's impact, though, came from the gruesome images of four charred bodies dismembered beyond recognition and eventually strung up from a bridge by a euphoric mob. Those pictures revealed a deep-seated hatred of America among a section of Iraq's civilian population. Much was...