Word: tribalized
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...Governing Council, though L. Paul Bremer still maintains veto power over their decisions. The Iraqis recognize that this governing council is a joke and merely an effort by the U.S. to find Iraqis to collaborate with its own plans. Now the U.S. is even trying to make deals with tribal leaders, as they have done in Afghanistan where the U.S. military is responsible for restoring many Northern Alliance warlords to power. There is still no timeline for the transfer of power to Iraqis...
...terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated." Security analyst Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general in the Pakistani army, said the raid may be evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in Pakistan's tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed just across the border in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas. --By Phil Zabriskie. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain
...produce a hollow laugh in both Washington and Iraq. For his opponents in Iraq, the chaos over the summer can be laid at Chalabi's door. "I think the Americans relied on information they got from Iraqis outside the country, especially Chalabi," says Rabiah Mohammed al-Habib, a prominent tribal prince in Iraq. "These people simply wanted military intervention." Sometimes unfairly, Chalabi is blamed for encouraging his friends in Washington to think that an invasion would be a breeze and reconstructing Iraq not much harder...
...terror: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated." Security analyst Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general in the Pakistani army, also said the raid may be evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in its tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas just across the border...
...travel group is scheduled to visit cities, small villages and tribal markets in the Shan Hills. The trip will end in a 10-day voyage on the Upper Irawaddy river, where the travellers will see monasteries and markets, according to the itinerary...