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...said that one request came from a civil affairs battalion that had entered a Sunni area and found crowds of children armed with toy AK-47s. Insurgents had disbanded the soccer leagues, trashed soccer fields, and confiscated soccer balls, which they replaced with the toy rifles...
...worship of other faiths, even as the number of Catholics resident in Saudi Arabia has risen to 800,000 thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches...
...know if there is a formula. I think the problem is that people have been pursuing formulas. Both the American government, the American military, the Iraqi politicians, the elected leadership there have been caught up in finding formulas. How many Shi'ites in cabinet? How many Sunnis? Should a Sunni be president? Should a Shi'ite be prime minister? These kinds of sectarian mathematics don't work. They didn't work in Lebanon, they won't work in Iraq. I'm looking for straws in the wind. I'm looking for actual improvements where they can be measured. If people...
...will leave very soon. A regular Iraqi force that can keep the country, the army and the police, is in the process of building step by step. And as you know, there is the presence of a lot of militias - Shi'ite militias, Sunni militias and the presence of al-Qaeda. I think if the Americans were to leave in the next few months, everything will collapse...
...surge As an Iraqi, I believe the surge [had an effect]. But I cannot say it's only the surge. It was three things that really put the violence down: first, the Sunni awakening, second, the concrete barriers closing up areas in Baghdad. And the third is that Moqtada al-Sadra ordered his troops to stop their operations against multinational forces...