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...back Iraqi forces are gearing up for a new push deeper into Sadr City that could worsen fighting and displace hundreds, a government spokesman in Baghdad said. "There will be a big offensive soon," said Iraqi government spokesman Tahseen al-Sheikhly. He did not say when the operation would go forward. In east Baghdad the Iraqi government has readied two stadiums and one former military base to serve as camps for Sadr City residents who may be forced to flee the fighting, al-Sheikhly said. "We don't want any losses in the civilians," said al-Sheikhly...
...early to tell if the new operation will damp down sectarian tensions. "There are more ways in which this could go wrong than go right," says political analyst Tahseen al-Shekhli. "We have seen too many plans fail to have any faith in this one." Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a lifelong Shi'ite partisan, has shown little patience for Sunni grievances and has failed to start an oft-promised national reconciliation process. So despite his professed conviction that the security operation is working, chances remain high that it will eventually falter, brought down by the inability of Sunnis...
...Iraqis contacted by TIME said it was especially galling that Sgt. Cardona would have been involved in training police. To political analyst Tahseen al-Sheekli, it suggested "that America wants to build a police force that doesn't believe in human rights...
...crime syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat; in London. A staunch believer in peace between the Arab nations and Israel, Basheer was government spokesman during different stages of peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel in the seventies. NOMINATED. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM, 71, father of India...
...Noted "Thank God for everything, my son will go to heaven." TAHSEEN DIYAK, father of Palestinian suicide bomber Rafat Abu Diyak, who blew himself up on a bus in Israel last week, killing seven Israelis...