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...danger zones are also expanding. Attacks have been spreading beyond the Sunni triangle, the perilous swath stretching north and west from Baghdad that is the home turf of Saddam's supporters. Two weeks ago, the normally tranquil city of Kirkuk experienced a run of resistance fighters' nightly raids aimed at U.S. patrols and the local police who support them. U.S. and Iraqi officials fear that guerrillas from the triangle are trying to open a new front up north. Last week's violence in the Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad's Sadr City, led by the rabble-rousing cleric Muqtada...
...beginning, the Bush Administration tended to blame the attacks on die-hard Saddam loyalists whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed "deadenders." It was assumed that those fighters wanted to see Saddam restored to power. In the Sunni triangle, the remnants of the Baath Party regime are thought to still account for a sizable segment of the anti-American militants. But U.S. officials believe they are making progress against the loyalists, as more figures from the deposed regime are captured or killed. Pentagon officers say the modest scale of the attacks suggests that they are conducted by small cells operating largely...
...embassy convoy in Gaza last week, killing three Americans, the carnage brought to mind Iraq. It was the first time Americans, rather than Israelis, were fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories. Unlike most suicide attacks in the region--but as is often the case in the "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad--no group claimed responsibility. That left investigators wondering who might be behind the bombing--and what it might portend...
That, at least, is the theory. In reality, the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council is not happy about the deployment because of Iraq's history of bad blood with the Turks: Shi'a and Sunni Muslims resent the Turkish rule of the Ottoman Empire, and Iraq's Kurds are angry about Turkey's violent suppression of Kurdish separatism within Turkey's borders. Turkey, which is concerned that a move toward independence by Iraq's Kurds would inflame the aspirations of its Kurdish minority, previously threatened to block such a move by force if necessary. Indeed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
...took out a U.S. embassy convoy in Gaza last week, killing three Americans, the carnage brought to mind Iraq. It was the first time Americans, rather than Israelis, were fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories. And unlike most suicide attacks in the region - but typical of the "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad - no group claimed responsibility. That left investigators wondering who might be behind the bombing - and what it might portend. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other usual suspects denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger...