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...Gyanendra has proposed holding new elections within a year but says he won't restore Parliament until the country's infighting political parties unite to confront the Maoists and save the economy. Meanwhile, the Maoist rebellion is getting uglier, with guerrillas said to be abducting whole villages to reinforce their own ranks. The government has banned demonstrations in the capital, but that has only swelled the crowds further. Police have twice arrested as many as 1,000 protesters...
...RANKING REBELLION...
...Iraqi police simply melted away when the Sadrists arrived to take over their facilities, and in a number of cases the police were actually seen fighting alongside the militants. If the insurrection by members of Sadr's "Army of the Mahdi" succeeds in its goal of sparking a general rebellion among Iraq's Shiite majority - which some U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe it has - the U.S. will have lost the political battle for post-Saddam Iraq...
...with the Coalition and the IGC, and has been agitating against the U.S.-brokered interim constitution which grants veto power to ethnic minorities and also for rapid transfer of power to a democratically elected government. Indeed, Moqtada Sadr has enthusiastically championed the same demands in the course of his rebellion, which is nonetheless a power play in which the radical Islamist hopes to eclipse the influence of rival Shiite leaders, including Sistani...
...strongest factor working in the Coalition's favor had been the historic enmity of the long-suffering Shiites for the Baathists who continue to play a leading role in the Sunni insurgency. But, over the past week, Sunni insurgents have expressed support for Sadr, who has called for a rebellion by all sects, and Sunni crowds in Baghdad marched alongside Sadr supporters. That spectacle won't please the Qaeda-friendly Iraq-based Jordanian terrorist Musab al-Zarqawi, who has called on Sunnis to kill Shiites, but other Sunni insurgent commanders presumably recognize the usefulness of a Shiite uprising that forces...