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...double as the core membership of the Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade and other clandestine Palestinian militia. And even if they are persuaded to accept a cease-fire and resume their day jobs, they're highly unlikely to be willing to round up, at Israel's and America's behest, the Hamas militants with whom they have fought shoulder to shoulder over the past four years...
...government has no mandate beyond the January 30 election - and raises the specter of a long-term open-ended U.S. troop commitment. For the Shiites, the election represents a long-awaited opportunity to peacefully assume power proportionate to their demographic majority, and they'll brook no delay at the behest of the Sunni minority they plan to displace in the corridors of power. And while the Sunni insurgents have the capacity for violent disruption, the Shiite clerical leadership has previously demonstrated the sort of mass urban support that, if called onto the streets, could render the U.S.-authored transition untenable...
...slow and purposeful slides up the totem pole. What do you get after three years of toil? One night at Iruña a group of fifteen—err, make that 11—seniors joined together as they do every year at FM’s behest, and tried to answer that question...
...Early indications also suggested that some of Allawi's allies were willing to, in U.S. political parlance, "go negative." Defense Minister, Hazem Shalan (who is standing on an independent list), fired the opening shot of his own campaign Tuesday when he accused the United Iraqi Alliance, assembled at the behest of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, of being "an Iranian list." Shaalan proclaimed Iran as Iraq's primary enemy, and urged Iraqis to resist to the death what he called the efforts of the "black horde" in Tehran to turn Iraq into a theocracy...
...University of Glasgow. Ever the optimist, I was half-hoping to be the first person to thoroughly despise his study abroad experience. And I was definitely headed in that direction. That is, until I joined the University of Glasgow American football team at the behest of its outgoing and rather portly president. Over the next nine months I would play for both my university team and the city’s summer senior team (18 years+) both of which went by the name “The Tigers...