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...Next came a Washington Post investigation into the life and death of Abdallah Saleh al-Ajmi. Upon his release in November 2005 after four years at Gitmo, al-Ajmi became a suicide bomber, eventually driving an explosive-laden truck into an Iraqi army base near Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring many more. This, exclaimed the pro-Gitmo group, was proof positive that detainees should not be released. (See pictures of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...
...violence was vicious. Ibrahim Saleh Hassan did not get angry as he watched his home looted and burned down by an angry mob, or when he when he found out later that all 31 vehicles at his car dealership had been torched. His anger finally did come when he realized that his seven year-old son had seen the mob kill the family's four dogs before the child's eyes. Hassan now wonders what will become of their once peaceful, ethnically and religiously mixed city. "My fear is that they will put us behind walls and segregate us like...
...many Sunni Arab patrol members fear retribution from the government; and indeed, some government officials consider the SOIs as little more than thugs and murderers. And as is so often the case in Iraq, the U.S is being blamed - this time by Sunni allies, such as tribal leader Sheikh Saleh al-A'ghayde, who accuse the Americans of abandoning them...
...fully understand that the proof will be in the execution," Brigadier General Perkins says. "We, along with the Iraqi government, know that this is strategically important that it is done properly." But the measure of whether it has succeeded will be in the response of Sheikh Saleh al-A'ghayde and his men, and others like them. And right now, the signs are not promising...
...Yemen's government is a valuable ally against al-Qaeda, it has sometimes been too lax - for example, by sentencing hardened militants to short prison terms and freeing repatriated Guantánamo Bay detainees. Last May, an appeals court reduced from five to three years the prison sentence for Saleh al-Ammari, the Yemeni man who opened fire on the U.S. embassy in Sana'a in 2006. Still, U.S. officials acknowledge that the government faces a formidable challenge. The country is home to a large number of veterans of the anti-Soviet jihads in Afghanistan and the Iraq insurgency; local...