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...Peter W. Chiarelli's two tours of duty in Iraq have coincided with some of the worst violence the country has experienced since the fall of Saddam Hussein. As commander of the 1st Cavalry, Chiarelli experienced the first spasm of the Shi'ite revolt when, in the summer of 2004, Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army fought pitched battles against U.S. forces in Baghdad and Najaf. But the main vector of violence in Iraq was the Sunni insurgency, supported by foreign jihadis...
...Chiarelli returned to Iraq last January as commander of the Multinational Corps - in layman's terms, the general in charge of combat operations. Within weeks the Shi'ites were up in arms again, after the bombing of the al-Ashkari Shrine in Samarra. This time, the target of their rage was the Sunni community, not U.S. forces. Shi'ite militias are blamed for much of the killings in Iraq's civil...
...Back then, your main fight against the Shi'ite militias was in Najaf...
...time, it is the root of many of our problems today. The Sunnis didn't vote in the numbers they could have in many locations - out west, Baghdad, Diyala. In Diyala you have a predominantly Sunni population, but because they didn't vote, the provincial government is all Shi'ite. So you have the problems of a majority of Sunnis that are governed by Shi'ites for almost two years. That's why holding provincial elections is important, and hopefully that will happen by the middle of next year...
...force nor the Lebanese Army appears likely to even try and disarm Hizballah, which has agreed simply to refrain from openly bearing arms in the border zone. Now Israeli officials, Western diplomats and Arab sources hostile to Hizballah and its allies are all warning that the radical Shi'ite movement is actually replenishing its missile arsenal with the help of Iran and Syria...