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...Maliki denounced the raid and promised nothing like it would happen again. Gen. Babikir, though, defended the operation, saying his soldiers do not launch raids in Sadr City - or anywhere else - without specific intelligence...
...Babikir was also careful not to link the targets of the raid directly to Moqtada Sadr or his militia, saying violence attributed to the militia was actually the work of renegades...
...General Babikir and the US military have been a bit more aggressive on that front than the government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki would prefer. Earlier this month a joint US-Iraqi raid into Sadr City freed prisoners, at least some of the Sunnis, being held by what Babikir called an "assassination cell...
...Whatever the motive, Israel's raid brought swift criticism from U.N. officials, who went on to suggest that the cease-fire in Lebanon could remain fragile not only for days or weeks, but for months to come. Perhaps ominously, that's the way HIzballah sees it, too. As one Hizballah official told TIME this week: "The other shoe can drop any time. We know it. Israel knows it. The CIA knows it. [Resolution 1701] is a superficial solution and it's not going to work." Without stronger efforts to support the peace, both Hizballah, and the average Lebanese still fearing...
...lighting a cigarette, one of them was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in caf?s. Now half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. An ingenious way of stifling Tehran's bustling caf? scene without resorting to a single raid...