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...dressed as Iraqi police commandos slipped into Samarra's shrine of two revered leaders of Shi?ite Islam, set up explosives and blew it up this morning, causing the golden dome to collapse and with it, perhaps, American hopes for a national unity government in Iraq...
...celebration of Ashura, the shi'ite day of mourning, was one of the first passionate displays of Iraqi freedom after U.S.-led troops toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in the spring of 2003. Saddam had banned the holiday, which commemorates the battlefield death of Muhammad's grandson Hussein in A.D. 680. But tens of thousands of pilgrims suddenly appeared in the streets of Karbala after the coalition troops swept through, scourging themselves bloody in the traditional attempt to replicate the pain of Hussein's death. In 2004 and 2005, a different sort of pain was imposed, by terrorists-most probably...
...There will be a simple measure of Khalilzad's success: How much power, beyond their one-fifth minority status, will the Sunnis be given? At the heart of the negotiations will be a bright-line test: Who will control the Interior Ministry, now in the hands of Shi'ite religious extremists with close ties to Iran, who have murdered and tortured thousands of Sunnis? Even the Shi'ite leadership-in the person of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (sciri)-has acknowledged the excesses. "We call upon our faithful security forces...
...which is understandable-but potentially disastrous ... We believe Khalilzad is the best person you have sent to Iraq. He speaks to all sides and doesn't have an ideological agenda. But there may come a time when Khalilzad will need support, when worldwide pressure on the Shi'ite will be necessary...
...Last fall when the negotiations over the new Iraqi constitution almost collapsed because of Shi'ite intransigence, the U.N. issued a vehement objection, and remarkably, the Shi'ites compromised. The stakes are higher now, and it will take more than U.N. pressure to win Shi'ite concessions. In the end, it may take a high-profile presidential or Condoleezza Rice-led diplomatic campaign-like Henry Kissinger's in the Middle East or Richard Holbrooke's in Bosnia-to force a deal that could salvage George W. Bush's legacy in the desert...