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...troop withdrawal It would be chaos in the country. A country with no power or control. I don't think America will leave the country. Out of experience, I don't think America will leave very soon. A regular Iraqi force that can keep the country, the army and the police, is in the process of building step by step. And as you know, there is the presence of a lot of militias - Shi'ite militias, Sunni militias and the presence of al-Qaeda. I think...
...surge As an Iraqi, I believe the surge [had an effect]. But I cannot say it's only the surge. It was three things that really put the violence down: first, the Sunni awakening, second, the concrete barriers closing up areas in Baghdad. And the third is that Moqtada al-Sadra ordered his troops to stop their operations against multinational forces...
...World Trade Center. He was running late on the morning of 9/11 and reached the lobby as the first plane hit. He later witnessed the entire structure's collapse from less than a block away. Since then, he has applied for U.S. citizenship and launched several blogs about Iraqi news and culture...
...nickname among the militants who place the device. They call it the Najadia, a short variation on the long name of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "My group and I believe honestly in fighting the Americans - and getting financial benefit out of it," says Hussein Ali, an Iraqi Shi'ite guerrilla who recounted a journey to Iran for training in explosives in an interview with TIME. "We became very professional in planting and using the mine called BMZ2, which is a Russian mine modified in Iran for use against the American armor...
...drop in violence across Iraq, U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington have kept up accusations against Iran, saying Tehran is involved in nothing less than training and funding a shadow army of Shi'ite militants set against U.S. forces in Iraq. In the face of these U.S. assertions, the Iraqi government publicly says it has no evidence of an Iranian training program for Iraqi militants. "We don't have the proof that the American have," says Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. "Normally the intelligence information the Americans have is not allowed to circulate." The issue was also not discussed...