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...have identical names, there are others with that one, adding thousands more to the total of supporters.) More-extreme splinter groups have also sprung up, ranging from the militant to the simply depressed. "Give us Scrabulous or Give us Death!" has over 7,500 members and has issued a call to arms: "INVITE EVERY SCRABULOUS PLAYER YOU KNOW so we can get our voice heard! We know those Hasbro suits don't have hearts, but perhaps they have ears." At the other end of the spectrum is the more moderate, perhaps evangelical group, "Please, God, I Have So Little...
Leaving Sadr City that afternoon, Mohanid gets a call on his mobile phone. "The American base is on fire!" he exclaims with a grin. True enough, it is. On the southeast edge of Sadr City, residents watch as flames sputter from the broken windows of a multistory building on a joint American-Iraqi base. A helicopter hovers through the thick black smoke above, airlifting Iraqi police who have been trapped on the roof, as powerful hoses blast the flames with water from below. But this was no product of the Mahdi Army, which has kept to its official "resting" stance...
...Abbas hasn't been killing any fellow Iraqis lately - or even Americans, his group's primary target. In fact, the vast militia of radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has been relatively well-behaved since al-Sadr called on his followers to stand down and allow Iraqi government forces to enter Sadr City peacefully in May. Some U.S. and Iraqi military commanders in Baghdad say al-Sadr's call for his men to remain peaceful in order to prevent "more bloodshed" served a tactical purpose, as he began to see a losing battle in the face of an empowered...
...banned, the AKP will likely regroup under a different name and call early elections, seeking an even larger win. Its banned politicians could even run as independents, under a strange legal loophole. Perhaps they will have learned a lesson in building democratic consensus. Meanwhile, those indicted in the alleged nationalist plot will go on trial in October, which could be key to strengthening the rule...
...more mature audience' with that outfit on," said Snyder. The director said he fully embraced the book's nihilist themes. "We never really thought, 'Oh, gosh, is the movie too dark? Are we gonna be plotting down this dark road so far that people slit their wrists and call it a day in the theater? You have these optimistic characters in the movie that are trying to muddle through. It is a reflection...