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...they face being left behind as Iraq hurtles toward general elections scheduled for January. With many Sunni areas in central and western Iraq plagued by insurgency, U.S. and Iraqi officials have expressed doubts that a credible vote can be held in Sunni areas unless U.S. forces take back the rebel-held cities. Even if U.S. troops do, the task of finding Sunnis willing to brave intimidation from militant groups may prove even more difficult. In the absence of strong moderate voices, the insurgents have been able to consolidate power by portraying themselves as defenders of Sunni interests and threatening...
...Pakistani intelligence service and the military remain convinced that they can influence events in Afghanistan to Pakistan's benefit by backing the Taliban. Officials in Kabul are perplexed that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government in Afghanistan, their second option is to create chaos and keep the pot boiling...
...AFRICA SUDAN: Inside two of the rebel factions at war with Khartoum...
...this year and 200,000 by next summer, up from 98,500 now. Bush says he will defer to his military commanders on the question of future levels of U.S. forces, which now number about 137,000. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to seize control of rebel-held towns in the Sunni triangle by flooding them with Iraqi security forces and reconstruction...
...believes Shi'ites can get what they want at the ballot box, and the rest of the world will have to accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath, Sistani's agent in the Baghdad shrine district of Khadimiya, "but that depends on what the Americans do." Iraq's Shi'ites, he says, "follow our marja. If he tells...