Word: mistrusting
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...sign of Iraqis' utter mistrust of the leaders who have replaced Saddam that anger over Haditha has been directed as much toward the Iraqi government as toward U.S. troops. Like many Iraqis across the country, the survivors accuse their elected leaders of cocooning themselves in a highly fortified Baghdad enclave, with little thought for the plight of their countrymen. "The concrete walls of the Green Zone are too high, so they can't see what's happening to us," says Khaled Raseef, the spokesman for the Haditha victims' kin. Whatever they think of the Marines, Raseef says he was impressed...
...Rocky Relations Re your story on the dispute between South Korea and Japan over the Dokdo/Takeshima islands [May 8], South Korea continues to mistrust Japan more than 50 years after World War II because it continues to print government-approved school textbooks that whitewash the rape of Nanjing, colonial slave labor and the abduction of girls across Asia (including Korea) to serve as prostitutes for its soldiers. Ian Haight Pusan, Korea...
...This was a rare point of agreement for the two parties, which have been wrangling over an immigration bill in an atmosphere of mistrust. Democrats remain worried that the GOP is trying to sabotage a compromise in order to provide a campaign issue and portray the opposition as intransigent, as they did to great effect with homeland security in 2002. A Democratic Senate aide said that Democrats on Capitol Hill "are concerned that this will stir up the right-wing opponents and kook fringe while accomplishing very little," creating "a side issue" that distracts from the goal of getting...
...trickle. "We're definitely at a turning point," says Kinfe Abraham, head of the government-linked think tank Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development in Addis Ababa, and author of three books on the Nile. "The question is what way we go." For centuries, suspicion and mistrust have flowed as freely as water in the Nile. So dependent is Egypt on the river that rulers since the Pharaohs have regularly cajoled and threatened upstream nations to ensure that their tampering did not leave Egyptians dry and hungry. In 1270, the Orthodox Church in Cairo exercised its control over Ethiopia...
...level of mistrust over the investigation is fueled in part by the fact that the local state prosecutor says he accidentally deleted e-mails from January and February, while other e-mails have surfaced showing former state Law Enforcement chief Guy Tunnell outlining his department's initial refusal to release the surveillance video...