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...days after the capture of al-Qaeda's stronghold in Tall 'Afar, al-Zarqawi unleashed a retaliatory wave of 11 suicide bombings in Baghdad, killing more than 150 people in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since the start of the war. Iraq's Defense Minister, Sadoun Dulaimi, responded to the attacks by telling reporters, "I think what is happening is the last breath of the terrorists"--an assessment that even some U.S. commanders found unduly upbeat after yet another bloody week. "We have not broken the back of the insurgency," says a high-ranking U.S. officer...
...S.C.I.R.I.'s Adil Abd al-Mahdi and Sistani prot??g?? Hussein Shahristani. Whoever gets the nod, Washington will find itself having to deal with a group that has no natural affinity with the U.S. "These are all people who have one reason or another to dislike America," says pollster Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director of the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies. "If George Bush has to do business with these people, well, good luck...
...constant source of friction within the political system." Failure to secure Sunni participation in the new government could drive more Sunnis into the arms of the insurgents, delaying a peaceful pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq. "If the Sunnis are not a big part of the next government," says Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director of the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies, "violence will escalate quickly...
Allawi's biggest challenge will be to maintain close ties with the U.S., which still provides for Iraq's security and reconstruction, while proving to Iraqis he's not a stooge. "Judging by the way he was selected, I don't expect much from him," says Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director of the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies. (U.S. authorities in Baghdad and Washington played an active but largely hidden role in Allawi's ascent.) "He will be a puppet for the people who gave him the job," al-Dulame says. If the U.S. wants Allawi to succeed...
...Iraqis have such a poor opinion of Allawi? Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director of the ICRSS, pointed to one reason: "Every newspaper that has reported about his appointment has mentioned his CIA connection." Although Allawi has sniped at the U.S.-led Coalition in recent months, it's his ties to Langley that seem to have registered with Iraqis. (His organization, the Iraqi National Accord, is funded by the CIA.) "He's a CIA man, like [Ahmed] Chalabi," said Raed Abu Hassan, a Baghdad University political science post-grad. "In this country, CIA connections are political poison." It doesn't help...