Word: interiorities
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...government has been unable or unwilling to cut the grand political deal that is necessary for stability. Any such deal would include a guaranteed proportion, say 20%, of Iraq's oil revenues to the oil-less Sunnis, and also the root-and-branch cleansing of the Ministry of Interior, home base for many of the Shi'ite death squads. "We have been pointed toward civil war since the new Iraqi constitution was approved last October and reinforced in the December elections," a senior U.S. intelligence official told me last week. "The Sunnis have united behind the insurgency because they...
...Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, which has been responsible for much of the recent sectarian violence. But even if successful, a move against Sadr would leave the other prominent Shi'ite militia, the Badr Corps, which has close ties to Iran, in control of the Ministry of Interior. The second proposal was chilling. "We could partition Baghdad," said a general. "It's beginning to partition itself." But if the city were divided along the Tigris River-a popular rumor in the Iraqi blogosphere-approximately 1 million Sunnis would be stranded on the Shi'ite side and vice versa...
...heard of office buildings and farmhouses being turned into hotels - but we had never heard of converting prisons. And yet the interior architecture of a penitentiary should be well suited to low-budget accommodation - just think how efficiently large numbers of inmates are housed[an error occurred while processing this directive] within and are briskly transferred from cell to dining hall. There were certainly no design problems at Hostel Celica, hostelcelica.com, a onetime military prison in Ljubljana effortlessly transformed into one of the most fashionable places to stay in the Slovenian capital...
...possible. The light is about to change and the car inches forward towards the onramp. “Get in,” the driver says, her voice cracking. A plastic blowfish bath toy swings from the rearview mirror. The car smells like saccharin, like a new synthetic interior mixed with a kid come straight off the playground. The doughy-faced, front-seat passenger introduces us first to her 10-year-old daughter, sitting next to Simon, and then to the visibly nervous driver in front of me. While Simon tries to make the hosts feel more comfortable by talking...
...Sunday's killings demonstrate, however, even Sunnis with no insurgent ties have reason to be afraid. Some members of the Iraqi police openly display their affiliation with Sadr, and elements within the Interior Ministry have been implicated in the kidnapping and killing of Sunnis...