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...Bryan Owens, the commander of U.S. forces in Salahuddin province, isn't hoping for the kind of tribal "awakening" seen in neighboring Anbar. In the desert reaches to the north of Owens' command, a number of tribal leaders have gathered themselves and their followers under the banner of Sunni chieftain Sheik Abdul Sittar, who has vowed to work with U.S. forces at crushing insurgents associated with al-Qaeda. The pact has brought some significant successes. The daily average of insurgent attacks in Anbar province has dropped by almost 50% in roughly a year, coming down to about...
...shot as troops sought insurgents in the city of Hamandiya; in Washington. The charges came amid an investigation into alleged murders at Haditha by other Marines--and in the same week that the Pentagon announced charges against four Army soldiers in the murder of three Iraqi detainees in Salahuddin province...
...second time in a week, U.S. troops in Iraq have been charged with murder. Four U.S. soldiers have been charged with killing three detainees in Iraq's Salahuddin province last month. Yesterday, the Marines announced that seven Marines and one Navy corpsman had been charged with kidnapping, conspiracy, and murder of an Iraqi man last April. And there may be more to come: An ongoing criminal investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, an alleged massacre first uncovered by TIME, may result in similar charges against several Marines...
...advocating a boycott. A senior commander of Jaish Mohammed ("Army of Mohammed") has told TIME that leaders of several insurgent groups have been discussing "a total shutdown of three provinces for 10 days, before and after Oct 15" that would close stores and government offices. The provinces are Anbar, Salahuddin and Nineveh, all with Sunni majorities...
Slowly, the BMF’s narrowly defined reputation as just a brotherhood took on new dimensions. As the BMF became more established, others on campus started turning to it and its leaders for the black man’s opinion, Salahuddin says. These questions prodded the BMF into vocalizing more specific political views...