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...support of foreign terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. But increasingly what was happening in Iraq was a sectarian war between the Sunni minority and the Shi'ite majority. The country that Americans had set out to democratize had, on closer inspection, voted to break apart. A spiral of tit-for-tat massacres in ethnically mixed Baghdad and the surrounding provinces ensured that the disintegration would happen in the bloodiest possible way. By the summer of 2006, despite the successful formation of a democratically elected government in Baghdad, Iraqis were dying at a rate of more than...
...recognizing the problem isn't the same as having a solution. The current military strategy isn't succeeding, as evidenced by the continuing tit-for-tat sectarian killings. U.S. and Iraqi forces last month stormed some buildings in the Mahdi Army's stronghold of Sadr City, killing several fighters and arresting a top commander. But the anticipated knockout punch was never delivered. Al-Maliki, says a senior Iraqi government official, "doesn't want a war against Muqtada al-Sadr because it would open him up to charges of killing his fellow Shi'ites--like what Allawi faced." After Allawi gave...
...week. But the status quo could be shaken up if Israeli troops, above, continue to occupy southern Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force can be formed. "If the Israelis don't lift the siege and they allow Lebanon to run out of energy," the official warns, "it will be tit...
...usually he would call.” At around 3 p.m. a colleague called the Daniloffs’ house and informed Ruth that an American correspondent had been arrested. The friend, it turned out, was actually a KGB informant. Daniloff’s capture and subsequent release followed the tit-for-tat logic of the Cold War. He was arrested the week after a Soviet physicist working at the United Nations was charged with spying against the United States. And Daniloff was only freed after a complex series of negotiations resulted in the release of Daniloff, the Soviet agent...
...Hamas and Fatah militiamen have clashed repeatedly in the last three weeks, including on three separate occasions in just the last two days. Early Monday morning, three men were killed in Khan Yunis during a shoot-out between the factions that followed a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings. On Tuesday morning, trouble ensued in Gaza City after Hamas gunmen approached the heavily guarded house of a Fatah official; bullets again flew, injuring nine people, including five children. That same afternoon, at the funeral of a Fatah foot soldier killed the prior morning, gunfire erupted again, injuring three more...