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...Kurds and Shi'ites crafted a deal between themselves and spent Monday evening trying to convince the Sunnis to come on board. They failed. "They are trying to push us aside," said Sunni negotiator Saleh Mutlak. Finally, the chairman of the committee, Sheikh Humam al-Hamoudi of SCIRI, presented a draft to the parliament without settling the issue of federalism. Fuming Sunnis warned darkly of civil war while pledging to vote down the document in the October referendum...
...IMRAN M. SALEH...
...TIFFANY SALEH...
Nevertheless, men like Saleh and al-Rubaie are convinced that they can put enough of an Iraqi cast on national security to make a difference. Sending even a few Iraqi officers to the front lines, they say, could begin to change the popular perception that Iraq is caught in the cross-fire of Washington's own war on terrorism. Those who characterize the bomb blasts and gun battles as resistance to foreign occupation, says Saleh, "will lose credibility...
...government is racing against time--it has just seven months before scheduled elections to convince ordinary citizens that the anti-jihad fight is theirs. "We have to do that," says Saleh. "Convince Iraqis that this should be a war of the government and people against the terrorists." And accomplish what the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not. According to the New York Times, a senior CPA official who returned last week to Washington confesses that in the past 15 months, U.S. intelligence hasn't cracked the insurgency's command and control or eroded its strength. "Our intelligence on this stuff...