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...that the gains of the surge are temporary and predicated on a massive American presence. They point out that Iraq's political leadership has failed to use the relative calm to engineer any real reconciliation between the majority Shi'ites and the Sunnis. While U.S. troops have battled al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala, the Iraqi Parliament has made little progress on critical legislation in more than a year. And partly because of massive government corruption, improvements in basic services like electricity, water and fuel have lagged behind security gains. Baghdad gets an average of eight hours of electricity...
...military has recruited thousands of Sunni insurgents to join the fight against jihadist groups like al-Qaeda, but the Shi'ite militias mainly responsible for last year's sectarian carnage remain largely untouched. In August, Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army, ordered it not to attack American troops. But U.S. commanders on the ground know there was no goodwill behind the decision. "It wasn't because Sadr saw Jesus--let's put it that way," says Major Christopher Coglianese, a staff officer in Baghdad. More likely, the Mahdi Army is waiting for the Americans to begin their drawdown...
...Lebanese army earned nationwide praise for its role in the three-month battle this summer with Fatah al-Islam, an Al-Qaeda-inspired faction that was based in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. As head of military operations, Hajj played a prominent role in the confrontation as well as organizing the deployment of Lebanese troops along the border with Syria through which militants and weapons are alleged to have been smuggled into Lebanon. "General Hajj played a big role in anti-terror operations and his murder could be revenge by the terrorists," a senior Lebanese...
...Tuesday's deadly bombings of government and United Nations buildings in Algiers offers a prime example of how the threat of terror is rising even as it becomes more complex. Though its strikes have thus far been limited to Algerian soil, the group claiming responsibility for the strikes - al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - has signaled its desire to internationalize its jihad. With Tuesday's violence marking the first time AQIM has struck foreign targets in a major attack in Algeria, security officials fear it signals a significant broadening of the group's terror action that will inevitably reach Europe...
...apology, only evasion and qualification. The destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation of terrorist operatives represents the latest in a series of violations of public trust in what seems like a return to the disconcerting Nixonian era of cover-ups and casuistry. The 2002 recordings, in which two Al-Qaeda detainees are questioned, were destroyed because “they were no longer of intelligence value and not relevant to any internal, legislative, or judicial inquiries,” according to CIA Director Michael V. Hayden. As for the “alternative” means the CIA used...