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...Sunni Insurgents The fighters behind the Sunni Triangle chaos...
...tough measures Allawi has promised to deal with it - are not conducive to holding a successful election, any move to delay a vote may provoke on a crisis that could bring down interim government and even presage the breakup of the country. That's because while the Sunni insurgents who oppose an election that would empower the Shiite majority are capable of brutal disruption of Iraqi political life, they don't have the capacity to overthrow the government. But the government would be far more vulnerable to mass demonstrations and insurrection by the Shiite majority, for whom the demand...
...Sunni Insurgents The Players: Initially dismissed as the work of Baathist "bitter-enders" and a handful of foreign jihadists, the insurgency centered in the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad has raged on for more than a year, and last week's death toll throughout the region suggests it is far from over. U.S. officials have come to recognize that the insurgency is in fact a diverse movement - some of its elements being foreign fighters such as the Jordanian Qaeda-linked militant Musab al-Zarqawi, others being former officers of the old army or ordinary Sunni Iraqis guided by nationalist...
...Script: The statements and actions of the foreign jihadist element linked to Zarqawi have always made clear that they plan to wreak maximum havoc in the hope of disrupting any transition plan in Iraq, and forcing out the Americans and their allies (both foreign and Iraqi). Clearly many Sunni Iraqi nationalists and Baathists currently share that goal, and are ramping up attacks not only on the Coalition, but particularly on the Iraqi security forces to which the U.S. is hoping to transfer increasing responsibility. At the same time, the recent deal to end the fighting in Fallujah, which handed security...
...current dynamic could break up Iraq into ethnic enclaves, an outcome that would spark new troubles throughout the region, not least in oil-rich eastern Saudi Arabia where secessionist voices among the Saudis Shiite minority would likely be amplified. Riyadh's best-case scenario had been to maintain a Sunni-dominated polity in post-Saddam Baghdad, but right now that looks unlikely. Iraq's future hangs in the balance between a wide variety of contending forces, and the outcome is impossible to call. If it proves unable to contain the Qaeda insurgency within its borders, the same may also...