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...took control of the southwestern city of Quetta after hundreds of Shia Muslims went on the rampage following an attack on a Shia mosque during Friday prayers that killed at least 47 people and wounded 65. No one immediately took responsibility for the attack but police suspected a banned Sunni Muslim group. Beached Blob CHILE Scientists were baffled by the remains of a huge, gelatinous sea creature that washed up on the country's southern Pacific coast. The 12.4-m long creature, which resembled a mammoth jellyfish with tougher flesh, was initially thought to be a whale. Experts decided...
...That there is an insurgency in Baghdad and in the Sunni triangle to the north is undeniable, but whether the attackers are part of a single coherent political command structure - or even a variety of different structures - remains to be seen. There is certainly a level of professionalism in some of the attacks on U.S. forces, suggesting the involvement of members of Saddam's security forces. But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles. Rumfseld is probably correct in asserting there are a number...
While much of Iraq is subdued, resistance to U.S. forces there remains fierce north and west of Baghdad in a triangle of territory dominated by conservative tribes adhering to Islam's Sunni branch, to which Saddam belongs. Though sporadic gunfights are to be expected in a country where AK-47s are standard home furnishings, the combatants in recent weeks have used more sophisticated weapons such as RPGs and land mines. An RPG was used to kill a U.S. soldier south of Baghdad last week a day after two Iraqis died in the capital when an American soldier fired...
...months now, Americans have been engaged in a crash course on Islam, its geography and its followers. It is not a subject we were previously interested in, but 9/11 left no choice, and the U.S. military in two countries continues its on-the-job training in sheiks and ayatullahs, Sunni customs and Shi'ite factionalism. Yet there is one group that has been thinking--passionately--about Muslims for more than a decade. Its army is weaponless, its soldiers often unpaid, its boot camps places like the Queens classroom. It has no actual connection with the U.S. government (except possibly...
...they're facing an organized insurgency, blaming remnants of the old regime and jihadists from other Arab countries who had come to Iraq to fight the U.S. More worrying are the attacks that have occurred this week south of Baghdad, in predominantly Shiites areas. An insurgency confined to the Sunni minority is more easily contained than one whose base extends to the Shiite majority...