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...Three U.S. Army companies currently live on small bases in the neighborhood, and a fourth is setting up shop. Delta Company, 2-12 Cavalry, operates in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of south Ghazaliya, and in recent weeks it has seen the constant drumbeat of sniper fire, roadside bombs and firefights with insurgents ease significantly...
...fact, there seems to be more hostility in Ghazaliya's Sunni districts towards the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces than mistrust of the U.S. Residents told Brooks stories of fear and intimidation - a mother who drives her son everywhere for fear that a lone young man with an obviously Sunni first name will disappear at a checkpoint; an old man who accused the Iraqi Army of murdering his son; a shopkeeper who said children swarm around American soldiers on patrol but scatter at the approach of the Iraqi Army...
...Rice is determined to avoid adding a picture of herself with Syria's foreign minister to Assad's brag-book, at least until he shuts down the pipeline of Sunni militants that runs through Syria into Iraq...
...enter their territory. Moreover, says a U.S. official, "We're not asking them to do us any favors. We believe they understand that being a transit point for violent extremists going to Iraq is dangerous for them." (The strongest internal challenge to the Syrian regime remains that of radical Sunni Islamists organized in the Muslim Brotherhood.) U.S. officials add that if violence in Iraq abates, so will the flood of Iraqi refugees into Syria...
...while Sunni civilians inside the walled-off area lament the inconvenience and the effect on the local economy, their greatest fear is for the long-term survival of their community. They worry that the wall isn't about security at all, but is rather an effort to fence them in while Shi?ite militia clear the rest of the neighborhood of its Sunni residents...