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...strike rate of the insurgency in the run-up to the election suggests that despite such large-scale U.S. military operations as the recapture of Fallujah, Iraq's insurgency continues to grow in size, scale and momentum. Where the Bush administration once dismissed the insurgents as "Baathist bitter-enders" and "foreign terrorists" who would be crushed by the U.S. and its Iraqi allies, it is now more common for U.S. officers to admit they are unlikely to defeat the insurgency any time soon. Henry Kissinger once famously noted that while a counterinsurgency campaign wins only when by eliminating the insurgents...
...ceremony, the official Xinhua News Agency released an obituary referring to Zhao's "serious mistakes" in dealing with the 1989 student protests. Zhao was deposed after opposing that summer's Tiananmen Square crackdown. MEANWHILE IN MALAWI... Justice on Wheels High court and supreme court judges ended a six-day strike after accepting a government offer to replace their aging Toyota Corollas with a fleet of new four-wheel-drive vehicles. The judges, who complained that their old cars needed constant maintenance, had originally demanded Mercedes or BMWs. Their new Nissan Terranos will cost about $60,000 apiece; per capita...
...recreation employee calls 311 about a missed trash pickup and a water-department staff member calls after spotting a broken sidewalk, they are, in a way, playing the same pivotal role as those thousands of callers in Chicago in 2002 who, without realizing, predicted where West Nile would strike next. At low cost and with little new bureaucracy, 311 callers are helping to build more intelligent, more responsive cities. All with just three little numbers...
...claimed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group. Officials in Canberra claimed the vehicles were not hit specifically because they were Australian, but a post boasting of the attack on a Zarqawi-linked website noted the soldiers' nationality. Even if the intention had been to strike U.S. or Iraqi troops, the men who triggered the bomb by remote control would have known they were about to hit Australians, who wear distinctive camouflage fatigues and drive different vehicles from the Americans. Several times, when this Australian reporter has been interviewing insurgents, they have pointed out passing Australian...
...areas where the insurgents are expected to be most effective in keeping would-be voters from going to the polls will be their Sunni strongholds in the provinces named above, including the capital, Baghdad. But they have also shown considerable ability to strike far from their home turf, through terror strikes in Najaf, Karbala, Hilla and other Shiite population centers as far south as Basra. In those areas, however, their threat will be countered by the strong sense among the long-marginalized Shiites of the election as an opportunity to claim the power of the majority, and the edict...