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...wicked little battle brewing between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his most powerful Shi'ite supporter, Muqtada al-Sadr. "In just a few months, al-Maliki has moved from 'You can't go after al-Sadr' to seeing [al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia] as a serious threat to his power," Ambassador Crocker told me in Baghdad a few weeks ago. Both al-Maliki and al-Sadr are plotting and scheming to oust each other. The Sadrist parliamentary bloc is planning to force a no-confidence vote on al-Maliki that could conceivably bring down the government. Given...
...redeployment along the lines that Bush is describing, they are keen to give voters the impression that they are all for getting the U.S. out of Iraq. And they are, but not yet. They, too, recognize a need for a strong, interim force in country to offset the threat of mass killing, secure the borders, chase al-Qaeda and deter Iranian meddling in the country...
...Even before the recent failed attacks in London and Glasgow, Germany had raised its official terrorism-threat level after August Hanning, the country's top security official, compared the current situation to that which prevailed during the summer of 2001. "We are in a similar situation at the moment," Hanning told the German parliament. "We see there are active structures at work again. We received evidence that actions are planned in the region, but also in Europe and the U.S." A German official, asking not to be named , explained this week that the new assessment was based on the fact...
...like his U.S. counterpart, Hanning is referring to the general possibility of an attack rather than any specific threat, hoping to make Germans more alert to suspicious activities, and also raising pressure on any terror cells already in place. Says Rolf Tophoven, director of the Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy in Berlin, "Where there is no evidence, you must do things to shock terrorists in order to prevent them from acting...
...Britain also sees a rising al-Qaeda threat, although it believes the latest attacks in London and Glasgow were more likely committed by relatively amateur groups inspired by al-Qaeda rather than by the network's own operational structures...