Word: jawad
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...built the capacity of the Afghan national army and police, we would not be in the position we're in right now, facing a serious challenge in the spring from the Taliban," Afghan Ambassador Said Jawad told TIME on Thursday. "There was an underinvestment in building the capacity of the Afghan security forces, as well as [of] the Afghan government to deliver services. And now we are paying a price for that...
...pledged to have 70,000 soldiers and 82,000 police officers deployed by October 2008, years ahead of schedule. But the Afghans have been pleading for help to fund the recruitment, training and equipping of those forces - and aid has been surprisingly slow in coming. Only recently, according to Jawad, has the Afghanistan government been able to raise the pay of Afghan soldiers from $70 to $100 a month. If the new U.S. aid package goes through, Jawad told TIME, the government will also be able to offer policemen $100 a month...
...That impression was reinforced Thursday when Interior Minister, Jawad al-Bolani, a Shi'ite, issued an arrest warrant for leading Sunni cleric Harith al-Dari, accusing him of fomenting terrorism and sectarian violence. Al-Dari is the head of the influential Muslim Scholars Association, who while condemning terror attacks on Iraqi civilians has nonetheless openly backed insurgent attacks on U.S. forces as "legitimate resistance." The arrest warrant was greeted with howls of protest by the Sunni parties participating in the government, who denounced it as a sectarian attack. Some Sunni leaders even warned that if it were not rescinded, they...
...government and to armed militias, and a lot of the time the interests overlap," he says. Major General Rick Lynch sums it up: "We don't know what happened yet." With the Iraqis set to assume more control of the war, and with newly anointed Prime Minister Jawad al-Maliki calling for more militias to be integrated into government forces, the murky battle at Adhamiya could be a harbinger of more troubles to come...
...announcement on Saturday that all key Iraqi factions have agreed on Jawad al-Maliki as an acceptable Shi'ite replacement for controversial prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was greeted as a sign of hope for the cause of Iraqi democracy. But whatever their differences in personal style, Jaafari and his designated successor are cut from the same political cloth - and they will face the same political obstacles that fueled Kurdish, Sunni and U.S. objections to Jaafari...