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...Last week the age of terror caught up with Nepal. On Aug. 31 the Iraqi extremist group Ansar al-Sunna announced that it had killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers kidnapped outside Ramadi 11 days earlier. A grisly video showed two militants slitting one hostage's throat and holding up his severed head before they went on to shoot the other 11 in their heads. The group's statement admonished Nepal "and other lapdogs of the Jews and the Christians," adding: "Do not sympathize with this impure group. They have left their country and traveled thousands of kilometers to work with...
...Sadr's ability to survive such face-offs may have wider reverberations. Two months after sovereignty was handed over to Iraqis, large swaths of the country are controlled by a flourishing assortment of insurgents. U.S. forces have abdicated power in Fallujah, been chased out of Ramadi and Samarra, and are scrambling to keep hold of Baqubah, Tikrit and Mosul. Even in Baghdad, gunmen have turned areas of the capital into deadly no-go zones. While U.S. and Iraqi officials insist they have the firepower to contain the violence, the agonizing search for a way out in Najaf was the latest...
...exactly well-loved within its native population or its clerical establishment - the result might be a long-term insurgency throughout the Shiite south and in the capital. Given the fact that Sunni insurgents are currently in effective control of Fallujah and are challenging for control of Ramadi, Samarra and even, somewhat audaciously, Mosul, a Shiite guerrilla campaign would severely stretch Coalition and Iraqi forces. And forcing the Allawi government to rely so heavily and directly on U.S. military power, as it has done at Najaf, undercuts its own prospects of achieving legitimacy among Iraqis as a genuinely independent government...
...insurgents' synchronization occurred within each city, as well as across the country: in Mosul, seven car bombs exploded outside police stations, killing at least 56 people, according to the Ministry of Health. In Ramadi, two police stations were attacked, killing seven police officers and one Iraqi National Guard soldier...
...From the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force's headquarters in Ramadi, Major Thomas V. "TV" Johnson said by late afternoon that Ramadi and Fallujah were "fairly quiet," dismissing reports from Arabic news channels that insurgents had overrun the cities as "wholly inaccurate...