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...based in Fallujah. Their goal is to create a political party that can contest and win elections, held after U.S. withdrawal, in areas like Fallujah. "Thinking has started to move toward asking what happens after the Americans leave," says a nationalist commander who asked to be identified as Abu Khalil. "So far we have only shown that we know how to act militarily, but the military wing cannot lead the country into the future...
...middle of a book of short sayings and poems, the great Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) wrote, “Half of what I am telling you has no meaning. But I am telling it to you so that you will understand the meaning of the other half.” It is a defense of the importance of context and it is timely today. In a presidential election year, context is as acutely necessary as it is rare...
...most prominent ghosts come from Owja, Saddam's home village just south of Tikrit. Khalil Ibrahim Omar al-Mouslit and his brothers Mohammad and Radman were, respectively, Saddam's favorite bodyguard, personal chauffeur and close escort. Mohammad was seen by the butler driving Saddam's white Mercedes out of the Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiyah after the President made a public appearance there on April 9, as the Americans were trying to take control of Baghdad. And the same day, says the former secretary, Radman personally told the other close associates of Saddam that they were no longer needed...
...report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid. The U.S. and the residents of Baghdad need them to grow up in a hurry. --By Romesh Ratnesar/Baghdad
...Conflict is not inevitable, and people change their minds,” Khalil Shikaki, director of the Center for Palestine and Research Studies in the West Bank town of Ramallah, told the audience of 300 that attended the forum...