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Still, the rumors seemed to underscore fears that the country could quickly slide toward chaos. Retired General Anthony Zinni, the former top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, told TIME that foreign jihadists are trying to incite a civil war in Iraq. "They want Iraq to come apart," he says. "They want the U.S. to fail, and they want to see it become three theocratic states. They don't want to see Iraq hold together as a democracy." Says Herro Kader Mustafa, a Kurdish-American coalition official in Mosul: "We are doing our best to make sure things...
...restoring order. Still, it's not clear whether any alternative leadership can stabilize the situation. If the gangs are indeed beyond the control of the political opposition, as opposition leaders maintain, then any new leadership may struggle to wrest control of the streets from warlords. The danger of a slide into anarchy may bring greater pressure on both the government and the opposition to negotiate a compromise. But even as Haiti's Caribbean neighbors press both sides on a new political formula, they may be looking for help from the only power in the region credibly capable of projecting authority...
...problem was that Brown plays a much more aggressive game then we have practiced. The referees were letting a lot of contact slide without calling fouls, and that put us at a disadvantage,” senior Liz Anderson said...
Desperate to score late in the third, BC sent its forwards crashing on net, with Murphy, Ty Hennes and Ned Havern whacking at Fields’ pads in the hopes that a rare rebound might slide free. After Murphy fired on net from close range, Fields failed to control the rebound, allowing Hennes to bang home the game-tying goal on the Eagles’ 39th shot of the night...
...Slick Announcing a 19% slide in Royal Dutch/Shell's fourth-quarter profits, chairman Philip Watts told shareholders he would not step down from the Anglo-Dutch firm after it slashed its proven oil and gas reserves estimate...