Word: shying
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...Sunnis overwhelmingly view the Shi?ite-dominated security forces-especially the Ministry of Interior?s special police commandos-as militias in government clothing, and accuse units such as the infamous ?Wolf Brigade? of conducting a planned campaign of terror, intimidation and assassination against the Sunnis. They are taking their revenge for the terror of Saddam, they...
...civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party in the Shi'ite alliance...
...willingness among those same officials to make the real compromises needed to break the deadlock over forming a government of national unity. And the sectarian upsurge appears to have boosted the political momentum of forces outside of Khalilzad's sphere of influence, foremost among them the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr...
...Despite waging two insurrections against U.S. forces and antagonizing some more powerful Shi'ite leaders, Sadr has emerged not only as the kingmaker within the dominant Shi'ite parliamentary alliance, but also as potentially the most important bridge between Shi'ite and Sunni militants. The events of the past week saw him take a major role in the parliament of the streets which rapidly eclipsed the tortuous negotiations of elected legislators: Sadr's followers are reported to have been in the forefront of attacks on Sunnis in the 24 hours that followed the Samarra bombing, while their leader was away...
...That move, and talk of joint action to protect holy places, underlined Sadr's ability to reach out to at least some Sunnis-not least because of nationalist credentials built by his confrontations with U.S. forces, and also by his firm rejection of the SCIRI proposal for a southern Shi'ite mini-state...