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...country, U.S. supply lines into Baghdad are imperiled by insurgents, and the Coalition appears unable to guarantee the safety of those Iraqis who join its police forces or its Governing Council. The indigenous insurgent challenge has grown and multiplied: U.S. troops now fight on two fronts, facing both Sunni insurgents whose number include both former Baathist officers, nationalists and Islamists, as well as Shiite fighters loyal to the militant rabble rouser Moqtada Sadr - and, of course, a foreign terrorist element whose frequent high-profile suicide attacks, such as Monday's killing of the head of the Governing Council, Izzedine Saleem...
...insurgents clearly sense that, far from being "bitter enders" as Donald Rumsfeld likes to call them, they may in fact have a future in a new Iraq. That's precisely what the U.S. military wants them to recognize, believing that the insurgency is fueled in large part by Sunni alienation from the efforts of the Coalition...
...solutions emerging on the ground are obviously at odds with some of the rhetorical statements from Washington about the nature and fate of the insurgents, but they proceed from an immediate objective of restoring calm and a recognition that the insurgents, both Sunni and Shiite, may be more deeply rooted in their community than Bush administration officials had been comfortable acknowledging. And it was the administration, not the commanders on the ground, that made the June 30 handover a priority above all others. The requirements of making that deadline may increasingly be shaping the battlefield outcomes in Iraq...
Iraq: State of Siege The most dangerous development that Americans face in Iraq is the menacing union of Sunni and Shi'ite radicals [April 19]. The members of the two main branches of Islam often don't respect each other. In Iraq there has always been a big gap between the Sunni government under Saddam Hussein and the Shi'ite majority of the population, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand...
...most dangerous development that Americans face in Iraq is the menacing union of Sunni and Shi'ite radicals [April 19]. The members of the two main branches of Islam often don't respect each other. In Iraq there has always been a big gap between the Sunni government under Saddam Hussein and the country's Shi'ite majority, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand for an independent Muslim country. SIDHA BAGHAVATHA Bhopal...