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...opportunity to signal strong support" for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but many of Iraq's neighbors see the Maliki government as part of the problem. Although al-Maliki came to office through democratic elections and is supported by Washington, Arab governments in Sunni Muslim countries see the Shi'ite prime minister as an ally of Iran who is helping Tehran extend its influence in Iraq. "Al-Maliki is not representing all of Iraq's people," an Arab diplomat told TIME on the sidelines of the conference. "He is too Iranian. He's serving Iran's interests...
...Maliki has dragged his feet on opening up the government to Iraqis who served in Saddam Hussein's regime, and that the manner in which the former dictator was executed last December was a deliberate provocation of the Sunnis. They say that al-Maliki has done little to dismantle Shi'ite militias such as the Mahdi Army, and suspect that he arranged for its leader, Moqtada Al-Sadr, to take refuge in Iran to escape arrest. Arab officials see the recent dismissal of some officers from the Iraqi armed forces as a purge orchestrated by al-Maliki because they were...
...national reconciliation efforts may be too little, too late. Hisham Youssef, a senior Arab League official, complains that Arab efforts to push reconciliation talks at a 2004 Iraq conference in Sharm el-Sheikh were largely ignored, and now the spread of sectarian killings has made peace between Sunnis and Shi'ites more difficult. "There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of people who are now looking for revenge," he says...
...mood in the Shi'ite-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut is equally toxic. Here, young men grumble at the constraints imposed on them by Nasrallah. "Hizballah keeps telling us to be calm and that they don't want a war. But we are tired of Sunni insults," said Ali Hijazi, 22, a mechanic. Lebanon has been gripped in political deadlock for almost five months with neither the opposition nor the government showing any willingness to yield to the other side's demands. Yet for all the bitterness generated by the crisis, there is little appetite for a return...
...Shiyeh. Their disappearance - an ominous echo of the kidnappings and murders of the 1975-1990 civil war - triggered a massive police manhunt. The Ghandour and Qabalan families are both connected to the political party of Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze community and arch-foe of the militant Shi'ite Hizballah. And Lebanese long accustomed to a tradition of clan blood feuds immediately drew attention to the grievance of the Shamas family, a tough Shi'ite clan originally from a village in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, some of whom live in the Ouzai slum quarter of southern...