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...extremists across the Islamic world are now whispering that there is a secret regional alliance between the Shi'ites and the U.S. Furthermore, the U.S. doesn't want to appear to be letting the Shi'ites set the ground rules - especially since delicate negotiations are under way with prominent Sunni tribal leaders to secure their support for the caucus process, in return for generous reconstruction funds...
...What happened to his weapons, his money, his remaining allies? What were his plans? Will all the Iraqis who have never learned what happened to their brother, their uncle, their neighbor now get the maps to the rest of the mass graves? Will they find a way toward reconciliation, Sunni and Shi'a, Arab and Kurd, as every hopeful official set as a necessary step on a path towards true peace? The world waits for a new chapter and history prepares, once again, to turn on a dime. --With reporting by Brian Bennett/Baghdad, Michael Ware/al-Dawr, Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit and John...
...convoy rounded a corner in the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra on Nov. 30, Sergeant First Class Alvin Ware had a bad feeling. In the near distance, he could see men crouching on rooftops and darting down alleyways. His fears soon proved to be well founded. As the convoy approached, he realized that some of the figures were carrying mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Before long, says Ware, 34, "they were firing in all directions...
Still, some analysts may be overstating the foreign presence. North and west of Baghdad, in the rebellious Sunni triangle, which the 4th Infantry patrols, Odierno says no more than 30 or 40 foreigners have been picked up. Many dedicated Islamists in other countries have no affection for Saddam loyalists, whom they regard as having little religious faith. Nor do they agree with tactics that target innocent civilians, which pious Muslims abhor. The resistance groups of former regime members TIME talked to said they have had no contact with non-Iraqi fighters...
...envisioned for Iraq. The Commission model allows victims to confront those who abused the authority of the state at the highest level and punish them. It also allows for those complicit in a regime’s everyday functioning—in this case, a large portion of the Sunni minority—to recant their involvement with the regime and rejoin civil society. Such is the system that has allowed the multitude of ethnicities in South Africa—from Boers, the group that provided apartheid’s rigid backbone, to those whom they routinely victimized?...