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...defining the "proportional response" mentioned. What would be the proper number of Palestinians killed by Israel Defense Forces for every Israeli killed by Hamas rockets? 1:1? 5:1? 10:1? Or perhaps Israel might be inspired by the "proportional response" used by the U.S. against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Gabriel M. Gurman, BE'ER SHEVA, ISRAEL...
Think of him as a chameleon. Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, owes his survival to an ability to adapt his political persona to the prevailing circumstances. During his 24-year exile from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, he dropped his given name and went by "Jawad," to avoid detection by the dictator's spies. Returning to Baghdad in 2003, Maliki seemed no different from the legion of Shi'ite partisans who took up posts in the U.S.-installed interim government. He brought vigor and venom to his job on the committee responsible for purging the government of Saddam...
...described by President Bush as "my man"; the next, he was fulminating against U.S. interference in Iraqi politics. "It's like every six months there's a new Maliki," says a Western official in Baghdad. "And as a political strategy, it's genius: in a country as divided as Iraq, it's the only way to appeal to all people...
Provincial balloting in southern Iraq on Jan. 31 will probably reveal how much life remains in the Sadrist movement. If candidates tied to the movement fail to make a decent showing in cities such as Basra, Amarah, Najaf and Karbala, the Sadrists' only official political power will be in the Iraqi parliament, where they hold 28 of 275 seats...
...pictures of the U.S. troops' five years in Iraq...