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With time running short and many Iraqis afraid to vote, the U.S. is scrambling to shore up security in critical areas. In the so-called Sunni triangle, Pentagon officials say, U.S. and Iraqi forces conduct about 1,000 foot patrols every day. "We are definitely on the offensive," says a...
Brown back into his familiar role - the hugely effective Chancellor and loyal soldier who marches along while Blair leads the parade. The Blair-Brown relationship would be fascinating even if there weren't so much at stake; the Irish rock star Bono wryly compares their creative tensions to those of...
The security situation in Iraq remains perilous to the point that the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, admitted last week that right now, security conditions in four Iraqi provinces militated against holding elections. Those four provinces, of course, include Baghdad, and between them house...
It's not that the al-Aqsa Brigades have much faith in Abbas, nor are they being na?1/2ve. Like much of the Palestinian electorate, they simply see him as an "acceptable" if uninspiring choice, one who represents the only chance at this stage of restoring a peace process, and...
The scale of the ongoing carnage represents a Herculean challenge for election organizers: Mortar attacks and car bombings continue almost daily even in and around Baghdad's heavily guarded "Green Zone," which houses government and U.S. headquarters. Plainly, it's not just in the Sunni heartland north of the capital...