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Yesilevsky may have to start preparing comfort food for the numerous undergrads she will be forced to reject...
...idea. For one thing, the support of the neighborhood would limit the demands that the French and Russians might make. (An immediate Six-Plus-Two request to lift the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq and start the oil flowing would certainly be harder to reject than a U.S.-British resolution...
...streets of Baghdad calling for Muslim unity. When a U.S. Marine patrol wandered around a corner into a Baghdad street filled with worshippers spilling out of a Sunni mosque, the flashes of anger and the wrestling for power captured in a second the challenge that American forces face. WE REJECT FOREIGN CONTROL, read the banners. The sheik's sermon was a hymn to nationalism: Do not try to divide Sunni from Shi'ite, he said; we are all united in our desire to create an Islamic state free of both Saddam and America...
...might not be a good idea to walk into a street full of Sunni Muslims kneeling in front of a Mosque whose clock tower had already been damaged by an American missile. On the walls of the mosque stood young men holding banners proclaiming "One Iraq One People," "We Reject Foreign Control," "Sunnis are Shias and Shias are Sunnis; We are all One," "All the Believers are Brothers," and similar proclamations of national and Islamic unity...
...Kuwaisi told the faithful, referring to the sacking of what was then the capital of the Muslim world in 1258. Now, new Mongols were occupying Baghdad and they were creating divisions between Sunnis and Shias. The Shias and Sunnis were one, however, and they should remain united and reject foreign control. They had all suffered together as one people under Saddam's rule. Saddam oppressed all Iraqis and then he abandoned them to suffer. There were no Sunnis or Shias, said the Sheikh. All Iraqis were Muslims and they had defended their country together from the Americans and British...