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...series of bombings rocked predominantly Sunni areas of Baghdad over the weekend, threatening to draw al-Qaeda back into the capital's spotlight, just as Iraqi and American military commanders announced limited progress made on another fiery front line. For the last month, the attention of the Iraqi and American militaries shifted in large part from Sunni insurgents to the Shi'ite Mahdi Army. With daily car bombings and IEDs still lower in Sunni areas of the capital than they were a year ago, officials are hesitant to declare a return of al-Qaeda just yet. But with all eyes...
...some observers fear Sunni insurgents allied with al-Qaeda may seek to capitalize on the situation by wreaking havoc in other neighborhoods where U.S. and Iraqi forces are paying less attention. Last month, American troops found a letter in a farmhouse northwest of Baghdad, purportedly signed by an al-Qaeda operative, which called on insurgents to sow disunity among the nation's Sunni fighters who have begun working with the Americans...
This weekend's bombings may be the latest evidence of that effort. In the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amhariya in north Baghdad, where Sunni Awakening groups allied with the U.S. have fought and largely quelled the presence of al-Qaeda over the past year, a suicide bomber blast tore through a meeting of the Awakening leadership Saturday night, injuring Abu al-Abed, the local head of the movement, residents said...
...central Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour, which has also seen heavy clashes between Awakening groups and al-Qaeda over the past two years, residents say the insurgents are also introducing new tactics. On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a small storefront, after police and a crowd had gathered in response to the shooting assassination of the shopkeeper and his son. "They are using a new strategy, drawing people to a scene before an explosion," one Mansour resident told TIME. Last week, he said a fight between a group of young people outside a neighborhood school drew a crowd. After the teenagers...
...NATO troops in Afghanistan. "Even if the Pakistani government gets a good deal, it would still only be a kind of containment policy," says Weinbaum. "Our interests will not be served by this. It has very little implication for what we are interested in - breaking up terrorist networks, al-Qaeda, and impeding the insurgents going into Afghanistan...