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...criminality. "And the Ramadi meeting wasn't at all unique," a senior U.S. diplomat told me. "You've had mass meetings of tribal leaders from Anbar and Karbala provinces," which are the Sunni and Shi'ite heartlands, respectively. "The governors of those provinces were literally building trenches on their border, and they are now meeting regularly. You had the highest-ranking Sunni politician in the country, Tariq al-Hashemi, go to Najaf to meet with the leading Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani. All of this would have been unthinkable only a few months...
...when your friends start to fight. So the recent rumblings between Kurds and Turks have reminded U.S. officials that they can take nothing in Iraq for granted, especially the country's greatest success story. Seventy percent of U.S. military air cargo reaches Iraq through Turkish airspace, and over the border flow the grandfather clocks and designer clothes that make Iraqi Kurdistan feel so much more prosperous than the rest of Iraq. But from the opposite direction come the attacks by Kurdish guerrillas on Turkish soldiers. It's an escalating decades-long fight for Kurdish rights that has already claimed close...
...Senate's most liberal members. She said she had feared that the war in Iraq left the National Guard so depleted that California would be unable to handle the disaster. But "the Governor's swift action" in pulling guard members away from a mission to patrol the border assured that sufficient boots were very quickly on the ground, the Senator allowed. It's not every day a Republican gets a shout-out from Boxer...
...applicants, Moghul said. “They are very effective, and this type of environmental strategy takes into account all the interests of stakeholders, business community, retailers, wholesalers, as well as law enforcement, community leaders, parents, and local schools,” he said. Harvard Square participants include Border Cafe and the Hong Kong Restaurant. “This is a real honor—one of the highest in substance abuse prevention,” Gisela Rots, director of the CPC, said in a statement released last week. “21 Proof is familiar with the people...
Work on the island will be completed later this week when a short, wrought-iron border is put up around the perimeter, said Rebecca Fuentes, community relations manager for public construction in Cambridge. There are no immediate plans to replace the trees, she said...