Word: nationalists
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...Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has repeatedly emphasized the importance of drawing in nationalist Sunni insurgent groups to achieving a workable consensus in Iraq. The flip side of that equation, as Khalilzad has also made clear, is that the Shi'ite militias must be brought under government control. Maliki has signaled that he plans to achieve this by integrating the militias into the national security force. But the Sunnis, backed by the U.S., insist that existing militias must not simply be turned into units of the national security forces - their fighters must be dispersed across the existing security forces...
...this isn't L.A. It's New Delhi, and the patient is Rahul Mahajan, son of Pramod, former leader of the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, who was killed in a family dispute last month. In this conservative city of 14 million, corruption scandals may be routine, but designer drugs have historically seemed as easy to find as steak...
...whether Zarqawi's successor comes from inside or outside Iraq will say a lot about the future of the insurgency, whether it is part of the global jihad or a so-called nationalist endeavor to remove an occupying power. Whoever it is, however, both U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that he will try to make a big statement to prove himself. "We're worried about what the next guy will do to make a name for himself," says a senior Iraqi military official...
...just as unforgiving of fellow Sunnis who refused to subscribe to his extreme vision, sending his suicide bombers to kill those who tried to join the peaceful political process. His unbending will caused splits in the Iraqi insurgency, as nationalist fighters and al-Zarqawi's jihadis fought armed skirmishes with one another. But, eventually, even those who disagreed with his methods conceded they were better off with him on their side than fighting against him: they needed the money, the materials, the men and the legitimacy that the fighter-superstar brought to the table...
...alienating even many Iraqis sympathetic to the insurgency, and that his strategy of mass murder of Shi'ites in the hope of provoking a civil war was a road to disaster. Even other leaders of al-Qaeda had publicly questioned some of these tactics, while some of the more nationalist leaders of the insurgency who had been quietly negotiating with the U.S. and Iraqi government had made no secret of their animosity toward Zarqawi and the al-Qaeda agenda. The announcement, just a day before Zarqawi's death, that the new Iraqi government would release some 2,500 Sunnis imprisoned...