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...have women searched at high-traffic areas," he says. "Secondly, this is an employment program. After years of war and sectarian violence, many of the women around here are widows and have no way of supporting themselves." Working with community groups in town, Starz's unit began recruiting both Shi'ite and Sunni women, paying them $8 per day. Unlike the Sons of Iraq, which is organized along tribal lines, the Daughters of Iraq is designed as a bipartisan group. Says Starz, "Everybody has gotten along perferctly harmoniously on all shifts...
Topping the list of challenges facing Suleiman is the fate of Hizballah's arms - more pressing than ever after the Shi'ite group smashed the 19-month deadlock and routed its rivals with the stunning military seizure of west Beirut on May 9. The group's success on the ground is mirrored in the Doha agreement, hammered out in Qatar last week. In the deal, Lebanon's bickering leaders agreed to elect Suleiman, settled on an electoral law for next year's parliamentary elections, and formed a new government of national unity that grants the Hizballah-led opposition its long...
...inaugural address on Sunday, Suleiman said that Lebanon required a strong national defense strategy incorporating the "capabilities of the resistance" alongside the Lebanese army to confront "Israeli aggression." Hizballah's domestic opponents in the so-called "March 14 coalition" will press hard to limit the Shi'ite party's ability to use its weapons. But they have little leverage against a Hizballah that has proven it will fight to prevent being disarmed...
...colonel had known this was coming. He is here to soothe some tensions that have broken out between the Shi'a-dominated Iraqi Army and the local, Sunni-dominated Sons of Iraq armed security organizations that the U.S. Army also supports. While the area has enjoyed a striking decline in overall violence over the past year, Colonel Rohling now spends an increasing amount of time managing the complex and fragile relationships that have made this peace possible - and making sure this detente does not unravel every time a partisan crime is committed...
...just that change in status, one that the Ayatollah did not appear to shrink from. "Sistani emphasized that everything should be done to get back total sovereignty on all levels," said Sheik Abdul Mehdi al-Karbala'e, who summed up Sistani's meeting with Maliki in a speech to Shi'ite follower attending Friday prayers in Karbala...