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...five sport-utility vehicles sat abandoned in the darkness. A faint beeping sound signaled that their doors were open. Some of the Iraqi police who arrived at the scene initially feared going near the cars, thinking the sound meant they were rigged to explode. Finally a few ventured closer. In the back of two of the vehicles were the four Americans. One of them was alive, though barely. Handcuffed, he had been shot in the back of the head, but he was breathing. The other soldiers were already dead. One had taken bullets in both legs and his right hand...
...Ambassador Ryan Crocker, representing the U.S. in the talks called by the Iraqi government, complained that the Iranians continue to support Shi'ite militants engaged in sectarian and anti-U.S. violence in Iraq - and charged that such activity had actually escalated since the previous meeting between the two sides in Baghdad, eight weeks ago. His Iranian counterpart, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, reportedly dismissed the U.S. complaints and said they were not backed by any proof. He blamed the security crisis in Iraq on the presence of "foreign forces," and also demanded the release of Iranian personnel being held there...
...national football team did," he told The Scotsman. "I wish that politicians could take a lesson from our team, which is made up of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds who worked together regardless of their backgrounds and won." Similar tales were reported from all over the city. And the Iraqi flag was even waved by celebrating crowds in independence-minded Kurdistan, where its display is officially discouraged...
...differences, of course, between the pre- and post-Petraeus eras. Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Marr, who commands 1-15, was stationed outside Fallujah with the 82nd Airborne in 2003 and early 2004. Back then the immediate problem for American forces was the Sunni insurgency. Four years later sectarian divisions in Iraqi society and the mainly Shi'a Iraqi security forces are largely driving the conflict. Marr, a 20-year Army veteran, confronts that problem with the heavily Shi'ite police unit he works with in this dusty farming community 20 miles southeast of Baghdad. "It is difficult to get people...
...soccer fans' passionate embrace - at least for a night - of a single Iraqi identity ought to have done more to reassure anxious U.S. policymakers than endless declarations of intent by the politicians in Baghdad. The game has a long history of helping bring a halt, although often just temporary, to civil hostilities. In 1967, a visit by Pele and his Brazilian Santos team to play exhibition matches in Nigeria brought a two-day cease-fire in that country's civil war. More recently, Ivory Coast's heroic exploits at the World Cup and African Cup of Nations have helped promote...