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...support for the corrupt, violent and self-serving warlords alienated many Somalis - and some analysts argue actually strengthened the popularity of the Islamists, enabling Somalia's top Islamic body, the Council of Islamic Courts, to take over Mogadishu and expel the warlords in June. The arrival of Islamist rule in Mogadishu, and the initial imposition of law and order that accompanied it, was widely welcomed on the war-torn streets of the capital. As Ethiopian troops advanced toward them, thousands of supporters of the Courts were reported to have staged rallies in Mogadishu. The Islamists are are also backed...
...About a year ago, Sittar and a group other sheiks tried to form an alliance of nationalist insurgents that would exclude al-Qaeda, which had become extremely radical in its ideology and violent in its tactics. Attacking U.S. troops was fine, as far as Sittar and others were concerned at the time. But they felt that establishing a puritanical caliphate in Ramadi, as some in al-Qaeda hope to do, shouldn't be part of the insurgency's agenda. In the end, however, the move fizzled and the nationalists and al-Qaeda remain allies in the insurgency. Sittar then abandoned...
...book at the men responsible, the U.S. military will earn the goodwill of the civilian population - particularly the Sunnis, who were the victims in Haditha. What's more, graphic descriptions of U.S. soldiers allegedly gunning down innocents - 10 of them women and children - in an apparent frenzy of violent frustration at their inability to find an enemy camouflaging himself in the civilian population are unlikely to help raise the morale of a U.S. public grown weary of what their Commander-in-Chief calls the "slow pace of success" in Iraq. Opinion surveys right now routinely find two out of three...
...even as the fight unfolds, shows some early signs of success. Despite bursts of fighting in Ramadi almost daily, schools are opening, and Iraqi police are circulating on their own in neighborhoods that were previously no-go areas. The end game is far from certain in Ramadi and other violent towns in Anbar Province like Hit and Haditha. But the plan already in motion there now means any additional combat troops President Bush may order to Iraq would be better put to use in Baghdad, which everyone agrees must be stabilized for anything else to work in Iraq...
...proposal says part of the effort would be run through a foundation operated by Amar Abdulhamid, a Washington-based member of a Syrian umbrella opposition group known as the National Salvation Front (NSF). The Front includes the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that for decades supported the violent overthrow of the Syrian government, but now says it seeks peaceful, democratic reform. (In Syria, however, membership in the Brotherhood is still punishable by death.) Another member of the NSF is Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former high-ranking Syrian official and Assad family loyalist who recently went into exile after a political...