Word: tribalized
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...Saddam would be a major plus," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "But you're still going to have the lower and midlevel people who, frankly, just see no other out." U.S. officials are worried that if Saddam is captured or killed, Fedayeen fighters may switch their allegiance to tribal leaders with anti-American grudges or link up with foreign militants who have crossed into Iraq to join the fray...
...most pervasive threat emerges from a fierce nationalism and a deep-rooted tribal instinct that interpret every U.S. search or arrest as an insult. That feeling is perhaps strongest in Fallujah and Ramadi, cities west of Baghdad where some of the most deadly attacks on American troops have come. These cities fall within the so-called Sunni triangle, where U.S. officials believe Saddam and most of his followers are hiding. But locals deny that the attacks have any connection with Saddam...
That sentiment is spreading. After the Baghdad raid that left Zaid Khazalalrubai and four bystanders dead, tribal leaders from around the country descended on the home of Rabiah Mohammed al-Habib, a prominent tribal prince whose house was the target of the raid. (U.S. forces mistakenly thought Saddam might be there.) The visitors offered help in organizing retaliatory attacks against American troops. "My people are asking 'What action should we take?'" says al-Habib. "I'm trying to calm them down. I'm telling them that the Americans are probably desperate. But I cannot control the feeling of my people...
...Hala--fled to Syria after the war started but were deported back to Iraq. Another butler, who served Uday, says the women made their way to Mosul, where Uday and Qusay died, and remain there--presumably with at least some of their combined seven children--protected by a tribal chief...
...following from the 'lay and fringe public' with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece written in 1888 by French composer Erik Satie ... Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above a heavy, sensuous beat laid down...