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...Craig Whiteside, the battalion executive officer, said the success of the Sunni militias against al-Qaeda and Jaish al Islaimi on the west side of the river, where they say they have the last al-Qaeda cell in southern Iraq on the ropes, helped put a spotlight on Shi'ite extremists to the east, the battalion's main enemy in the region. It gives the Shi'ite volunteer groups a window of opportunity to take control of their own communities. "I think the Jammers were like, 'We've got 100% of their attention now,'" he said. "It keeps their heads...
...vaunted U.S. strategy in Anbar province that has put a dent in al-Qaeda in Iraq involved establishing ties with Sunni tribes. But there has always been skepticism about whether the same strategy would work in Shi'ite areas of the country. However, that may be changing. In Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad and not far from the holy city of Karbala, American officers are taking advantage of a network of "concerned citizens" in this predominantly Shi'ite area to help quell violence stemming from both Sunni insurgents and erratic elements of powerful Shi'a militias. Just...
Over the past two months these "concerned citizens" groups have manned checkpoints and established a network of informants that have helped keep out Sunni extremists and finger Shi'ite militants who assassinate rivals and set bombs on roadways to kill American soldiers. While leaders concede that operations in surrounding areas and a growing public antipathy toward the radicals have contributed to diminishing violence, they point to the numbers and say the civilian patrols are having an effect. Soldiers say 57 improvised explosive devises, or IEDs, exploded or were discovered in May. In August, however, only six went off or were...
...Muslims in Senegal are very tolerant,” said Wade, who is a Sunni Muslim...
...Graham said he believed the "conditions are ripe" for political deals between factions on de-Baathification, which would ease the way for participation of Sunni tribes in local Iraqi politics, and on the holding of local elections, which would allow Sunnis to take a greater role in the Shia-dominated country...