Word: shied
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...needs to exist, survive, flourish - and eventually possibly succeed - is the acquiescence of the population," Brooks says. He notes several reasons residents supported the insurgency in Ghazaliya, including a political or religious opposition to the U.S. presence and an unwillingness on the part of Sunnis to submit to a Shi'ite-dominated government...
...fact, there seems to be more hostility in Ghazaliya's Sunni districts towards the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces than mistrust of the U.S. Residents told Brooks stories of fear and intimidation - a mother who drives her son everywhere for fear that a lone young man with an obviously Sunni first name will disappear at a checkpoint; an old man who accused the Iraqi Army of murdering his son; a shopkeeper who said children swarm around American soldiers on patrol but scatter at the approach of the Iraqi Army...
...Sunni civilians hope the expanded U.S. presence, in fact, will rein in the Iraqi security forces. One young man, noting that many Iraqi soldiers are loyal to Shi'ite militia, pleaded with a U.S. sergeant: "You need to keep an eye on them...
...current Iraqi battalion commander in south Ghazaliya, Col. Jabar, has a much better reputation here than his predecessor. He comes from Basra, whereas his predecessor, Col. Sabah, grew up in a Shi'ite neighborhood adjacent to Ghazaliya. Both men are Shi'ites, but Jabar has no personal stake in Ghazaliya...
...Cheney is going to need all of his vast political skills to convince the Saudis things in Iraq are not as bad as they look. One argument that would serve Cheney well is persuading the Saudis that a Shi'a Iraq is not necessarily the same thing as an Iranian Shi'a Iraq. He should point out that U.S. forces have started working alongside the Mahdi Army of radical Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad, a sign that the United States has the sense and ability to try to help and stand...