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Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia who spent much of his career in Canada, says that most Sunni community centers in Canada receive Saudi funding. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, a Ph.D. student at McGill University's Institute for Islamic Studies, which specializes in the worldwide spread of Islamic culture, estimates that 10% to 20% of Canada's 580,000 Muslims adhere to Wahhabism...
...Journalists and academics making a closer study of the patterns of resistance in Iraq suggest, however, that many of those doing the fighting are neither Baathists nor al-Qaeda, but are instead a broad group of mostly Sunni Iraqi nationalists taking guidance from militant Sunni clerics. Some are drawn into cell structures under the command of former security and intelligence officers; others operate through tribal and clan networks. Their motivations range from a religious-inflected nationalism resentful at the indignity of occupation - and fearful of the loss of Sunni privilege that had been guaranteed by the Baathists - to the tribal...
...targets provides sufficient circumstantial evidence that there is clearly some regional if not national coordination at work among those waging attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. But it also shows that most of their activity is confined to a relatively small pocket of territory stretching northward from Baghdad - the "Sunni triangle." The insurgency may find significant communal support among Sunnis, but its growth potential remains distinctly limited without participation from the Shiite majority. The Shiites were the brutally oppressed underclass of Saddam's Iraq, and they are deeply hostile to the Baathists. They also, however, remain for the most part...
...nationalism and a deep-rooted tribal instinct that interpret every U.S. search or arrest as an insult. That feeling is perhaps strongest in Fallujah and Ramadi, cities west of Baghdad where some of the most deadly attacks on American troops have come. These cities fall within the so-called Sunni triangle, where U.S. officials believe Saddam and most of his followers are hiding. But locals deny that the attacks have any connection with Saddam...
...situation in which a U.N. force, with help from retrained Iraqi soldiers and police, would keep the peace in Kurdistan, where the war against Saddam Hussein was always popular, and in the largely Shi'ite south. But as Clark says, "We're not going to hand over the Sunni triangle"--the area in which most of the attacks on coalition forces since the end of formal hostilities have taken place--"to anyone." In this scenario, then, the dangerous work would continue to be done by American soldiers...