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[Net News Publisher] Iraq - Sadr’s Surge - Political Opinion: As Patrick Cockburn writes in his new book on Sadr, “One of the grossest of US errors in Iraq was to try to marginalize and his movement. ”¦ In any real accommodation between Shia and Sunni, the Sadrists must play a central .
[Good Morning] Learn Chinese - Bomb kills 22 at Baghdad bus station: campaign by the Shiite-dominated government to marginalize Sunni political leaders. Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi said Wednesday that he believed the minister’s departure from Iraq “will be facilitated.” Top World News .
[Main and Central] "A Pleasant Turn of Events": Commentary: He described the outcome as a “pleasant turn of events” and said that Prime Minister Maliki “surprised us all.” McCain conceded that there were setbacks at first, but said that with limited American support the Iraqi army has wrested control of Basra from the Sadrites.
[libnot - News, Video, and Conservative Opinion] Michael Yon Opines In The WSJ: Iraq “Transformation”¦.a little ...: Then al Qaeda in Iraq, which helped fund and tried to control the Sunni insurgency for its own ends, raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, and brought drugs into too many neighborhoods. By outraging the tribes, .
[Dans Blog] Al Sadr's finds himself in a Jam and loosing control...: strengthened the hand of Muqtada al-Sadr" and "in another piece of bad news, all this helped Iran." Trudy Rubin's April 6 "Worldview" column in the Philadelphia Inquirer trumpeted that the "Basra fiasco showed Iran's power in Iraq." Rubin followed Dreyfuss's line that it was the commander of the Iranian Quds force who "negotiated" the ceasefire--because, as Iranian foreign minister Manucher Mottaki told her as the Davos World Economic Forum (where Important People gather to certify what will and will not be Conventional Wisdom), "The United States and Iran have common interests in avoiding total chaos in Iraq." But the strongest celebration of Sadr's "victory" fell to Time magazine's Charles Crain; the firebrand cleric "finds himself in a perfect position," he wrote April 1.
[Net News Publisher] Iraq: Future Of Awakening Councils In Limbo: reported on March 22 that an awakening movement in the town of Al-Taji, to the north of Baghdad in the Salah Al-Din Governorate, threatened to cease all activity until they were paid. Colonel Sa’ad Aziz Sulayman, the leader of the awakening council in Al-Taji, complained that his fighters have not been paid their salaries, approximately $300-$700 each, for nearly two months.
[The Captain's Journal] Basra Confusion: If the IA can limit the smuggling and diversion of oil and return those revenues to the central govt, that would seem to simultaneously strengthen the govt and rob the criminals that were running Basra of an important source of funding. If the Iranians are backing off supporting the mafia that was stealing the oil, running the ports, terrorizing the people, and openly attacking U.S., British, and IA forces, and are now placing their bets on SIIC, which is at least functioning within the democratic institutions, then that would seem to be a positive development.
[Israel News] Iraq Author: Jews have a historic right to Palestine: In the article, titled "Do the Jews Have Any Less Right to Palestine than the Arabs?" 'Alwan called on the Arab world to acknowledge the Jews' right to Palestine, because justice demanded it and also because doing so would end the violence and the killing of Arabs, as well as intra-Arab strife. He added that such a move would also open up new avenues for the Arab world that would be more consistent with the values and needs of modern society.
[godsmoderndaymartyr] RUMORS FLY ABOUT AN IMPENDING ATTACK: Sunni Muslim Kurds living in the mountainous north ( bordering Kurdistan proper in Iraq ). All of the other religious minority groups who once lived peacefully in Iran have been expelled or marginalized by the revolutionary government .
[Dans Blog] Call on Muslims to support the Insurgency failing: This has been and continues to be a big challenge for the new Iraqi government, to get these essential services in order to serve the basic needs of the Iraqi people.So at a much more basic level, nation building is the most effective key to winning the hearts and minds away from an ideology that is pitched and taught in varying shades from black to white and all shades in between.The other point that Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s #2, is to leverage the long standing notion of the ‘invading crusaders’ which has, in large part, been a successful media tool that Islamic extremist have used to keep the hearts and mind from this new form of freedom called democracy. I have come to better understand the need for the USA to co-opt other emerging powers, specifically India and China.
[Media Matters for America - Altercation by Eric Alterman] Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?: The war in Iraq has gone on longer than World War I and, while violence diminished in the second half of 2007, nothing has been resolved. The differences between Shia and Sunni, the disputes within the respective communities, .
[Peace Like A River] Cables, dispatches and memoranda: MNF Iraq - “The insurgents, by and large, have been marginalized in western Anbar,” Marine Corps Col. Pat Malay, commander of Regimental Combat Team 5, told Pentagon reporters.
[Luciole Blog] Truce calms Iraq, weakens prime minister: The confrontation enabled al-Sadr to show that he remains a powerful force capable of challenging the Iraqi government, the Americans and mainstream Shiite parties that have sought for years to marginalize him. And the outcome cast doubt on President Bush's assessment that the Basra battle was "a defining moment" in the history "of a free Iraq."
[COUNTRIES AT THE CROSSROADS GOVERNANCE BLOG] Bahrain's Volatile Demographic Mix: Kuwaiti authorities have recently denied re-entry to Bahraini Shiites returning from pilgrimages to holy sites in Iraq at the Al-Abdelli border crossing because their names appear on a blacklist allegedly provided by Bahraini security .
[Newshoggers.com] More On That Serbian Arms Deal: The same group, which rejected suggestions that it bring in Western advisers, has marginalized senior uniformed officers charged with procurement decisions and kept American officials in the dark about Iraqi financing of arms deals, according to high-ranking American officials familiar with its workings.
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