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...Crowley, USAID's mission director. "That's one of the key issues that we as a donor face - not having that overall comfort knowing how effective the resources are." On a recent trip Crowley made with colleagues from the U.N., he went to an area of Adhamiyah, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad, full of internally displaced people, or IDPs in humanitarian lingo. For some of his colleagues who had been in the country a year it was one of their very first such visits. Through the thick glass he could see the different living arrangements of the IDPs...
...feckless invasion had tossed a hand grenade into a house of cards-and now there was the stunning realization that only an exhausted U.S. Army blocked a bloody revision of borders. "We are one people," insisted the Iraqi Communist Mufid al-Jazairi during one session. "We are not Sunni and Shi'a. We are Iraqis." The other delegates exchanged pained glances or looked away...
...officials are hoping that Sadr will largely abandon Kalashnikov politics and focus his movement more on social causes as the need for militias to protect neighborhoods from Sunni extremists recedes. "I kind of think it will hold," Crocker said of the ceasefire. "The Shi'a are just as sick of militia violence as the Sunnis are." But Sadr is notoriously unpredictable. And while allowing for some optimism, U.S. officials remain unsure what will unfold. "It truly is a wait-and-see moment," Petraeus said...
...forth that appears to indicate that it will continue," said Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. U.S. officials say the cease-fire was a major factor in lowering violence across Iraq, where an ongoing surge of U.S. forces is now focused primarily on fighting Sunni extremists. "I would say it probably caused us about a 15 or 20% decrease in attack levels," said Gen. Raymond Odierno, the ground commander for U.S. troops in Iraq...
...said Zinni, a former commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. “All along, I felt that we needed more troops, and the surge has definitely had a positive effect.” He added that combined with the Shiite cease-fire and the Sunni Awakening Movement, the surge has had an “exponential effect.” But despite the decrease in violence in Iraq, Zinni said the surge has not yet effected the political changes that its proponents had anticipated. “The Maliki government hasn’t made the needed political...