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...major flow of foreign fighters coming across the border," says Kimmitt. He thinks there are a "couple of hundred" extremists doing the dirty work, including a few al-Qaeda elements, remnants of Ansar al-Islam that were dispersed from their headquarters in the Kurdish north during the war, Sunni extremists who share bin Laden's radical brand of Islam and a trickle of individual volunteer jihadis...
...folks who have acquired U.S. citizenship or green cards that are engaged in international terrorism," says Brennan. A well-placed source says the FBI now keeps tabs on about 400 individuals in the U.S. who are thought to be sympathetic to al-Qaeda or somehow connected to Sunni extremism. The FBI has also tried to co-opt some of them as informants...
...killing of Yassin could add impetus to violence in Iraq. Adnan al-Assadi a Council member from the Shiite Dawa party said that militants would use the Yassin assassination to justify new attacks on the U.S. And Iraqi outrage over Yassin's killing was hardly confined to the "Sunni Triangle" that has nurtured the insurgency against the U.S. and its allies. Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the single most influential leader in Iraq, called on Muslims to unite against Israel, while the more militant Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered the Palestinians "moral and physical support...
About 40 miles south, where Kurdish territory runs into the Sunni heartland, there are growing fears of insurgent attacks. Iraqis are now in charge of trying to maintain security. The police station at Tuz Khurmatu is surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, and its 20 officers have new flak jackets and Glock pistols, all courtesy of the U.S. Police chief Colonel Abbas Mohammed Amin has added six new patrol cars to the single vehicle he had in October. Four were gifts from the U.S., and two were confiscated from looters. His men's salaries have been increased from...
...sure, Pachachi is no shoo-in for the presidency. He is a Sunni in a largely Shi'ite country. His passions--attending Bach festivals in Europe and listening to Don Giovanni at home--are unusual among Iraqis. And given that half the country is under 20, Iraqis might wonder whether the tall man with a silver forelock is up to the job. Pachachi's aides argue that his age is an asset, especially after the Saddam era. "He's 81, so he's obviously not going to become a dictator," says Fareed Yasseen, an Iraqi-American consultant who serves...