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...range of their own attacks. Sabotage attacks on oil pipelines reveal an acute awareness of Iraq's points of vulnerability, while Wednesday's firefights that killed six and wounded eight British troops mark an even more worrisome development. While attacks on U.S. forces had been mostly confined to the Sunni Baathist heartland, the Britons were attacked in the overwhelmingly Shiite region around Basra. It could be that such attacks were mounted by the same largely Sunni groups that are harassing U.S. forces in Baghdad and to the north - after all, Saddam's (mostly Sunni) Fedayeen were active as far south...
...insurgency to sustain itself and attract new recruits beyond the existing cadre of die-hard Baathists - and, possibly, pockets of Sunni Islamists and disaffected former army officers who have suddenly found themselves with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus...
...armed rebellion against the U.S.-led occupation is confined to the Sunni Muslim population in the capital and to the north - the 15 percent of Iraqis who have governed the country from its creation after World War I until the arrival of the Third Infantry Division in Baghdad. Even the most stridently anti-American leaders of the country's Shiite majority have condemned the Sunni insurgency, denouncing it as "premature" and urging their followers instead to press peacefully for an early U.S. departure. As much as they chafe against the idea of a long-term U.S. occupation, the Shiites...
...throw an electronic net over the Karachi neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often, says Yusuf, it was the criminals who rented the hideouts used by al-Qaeda members, sent their...
...years away. "The Iraqi military is like a tree that has been knocked down," Frawley says. "And instead of just pulling the old tree up, we want to plant new seeds." Frawley says the new force will be drawn from all regions of the country; unlike Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated? military,? the corps will be ethnically diverse. Membership will not be open to senior officers from the old Iraqi military or members of the Republican Guard - a group that may make up as much as half the former Iraqi forces. And while the rest will be eligible to join...