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...week's sleek party people had become the next week's pious Muslim fasters. These young people belong to a type that defines urban, middle-class Iran. They are sophisticated, adaptable and hyper-social, devoted as much to dating and pop music as they are to observing Shi'ite rituals...
...enough to play outside, the kids on your block lived for the festivity of Muslim holidays. You collected money to sell cold drinks on the Twelfth Imam's birthday; you lined up behind the great marching rows of young men chanting and flagellating themselves on Ashura, a Shi'ite mourning ritual. On these occasions, there were crowds, bright lights, and delicious things to eat; outside of these occasions, there was basically no fun permitted in public. In school, your teacher taught you to pray, you were forced to fast, and as the years passed, veiled women became the only reality...
...Iraqi police force, hastily recruited and poorly trained by the U.S. military, is widely thought to be infiltrated by Shi'ite fighters from militias that have been conducting a campaign of kidnapping, torture and murder of Sunnis. Policemen are routinely accused of looking the other way - or even joining in - when Shi'ite death squads run amok in Sunni neighborhoods. U.S. military commanders have in the past acknowledged this to be a problem in at least six of the 25 national police brigades; many Iraqis say that is an underestimate...
...Says Ghosh: "First, where are they going to find the replacements for the bad cops? Al-Maliki's government has repeatedly said it aims to absorb Shi'ite militias into the security forces. So chances are, one set of rogue policemen will simply be replaced by another. Second, what are they going to do with the cops who will be fired? If they are simply allowed to go back to civilian life, they will rejoin their militias - the only difference is, they won't be in uniform...
...heavily secured Green Zone, where a succession of judges have given the former dictator the kind of hearing he never afforded his victims. But for many others associated with the trials, there has been no refuge from assassins who take justice--and revenge--into their own hands. Shi'ite death squads have murdered defense lawyers, while ex-Baathists have targeted the families of prosecutors and judges. The brother-in-law of Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, the second trial's presiding judge, was gunned down last week in Baghdad. If putting Saddam on trial is intended to help Iraqis bury...