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...influx of American troops into Baghdad has significantly lowered the level of violence in Ghazaliya, one of the Iraqi capital's most dangerous neighborhoods. But Ghazaliya highlights both the promise and the limitations of the troop surge. Residents are relieved to have the Americans around for now, but they have little faith in the Iraqi soldiers who will eventually replace them...
...that foot patrol, residents told American soldiers that they were relieved to have U.S. forces in the neighborhood. An Iraqi who lives in the neighborhood and reports for TIME confirmed that the sentiment seems genuine rather than simply saying what the Americans want to hear...
...fact, there seems to be more hostility in Ghazaliya's Sunni districts towards the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces than mistrust of the U.S. Residents told Brooks stories of fear and intimidation - a mother who drives her son everywhere for fear that a lone young man with an obviously Sunni first name will disappear at a checkpoint; an old man who accused the Iraqi Army of murdering his son; a shopkeeper who said children swarm around American soldiers on patrol but scatter at the approach of the Iraqi Army...
...mean just about anything anyone wants to it to mean - that's why Sean McCormack, press secretary to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, barred photographers from recording the obligatory grip-and-grin at her meeting last week with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the fringes of the Iraqi "neighbor's conference" in Egypt...
...understand that being a transit point for violent extremists going to Iraq is dangerous for them." (The strongest internal challenge to the Syrian regime remains that of radical Sunni Islamists organized in the Muslim Brotherhood.) U.S. officials add that if violence in Iraq abates, so will the flood of Iraqi refugees into Syria...