Photo: Analysts say that unified armed groups could have the resources to attempt to gain control of towns and villages [AP] From Al Jazeera website.
To our Muslim readers: Ramadan Mubarak
REPORTS – LIFE IN IRAQ
Iraq's Classroom Failures
The last thing you'd expect to face going to school every day in the United States is a tank right outside the entrance. And you certainly wouldn't expect the government to cancel your test results because of your religion. That's what Sunni high school students, parents and teachers say happened to them when the Shiite-run Ministry of Education cancelled the results of year-end exams at four Sunni testing sites in Baghdad, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. No Shiite districts in the capital had their results thrown out. It all started in the Sunni neighborhood of Ameriyah, adds Logan. U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents formed an alliance to drive the terrorists out. But the terrorists struck back, kidnapping two young brothers from school in the middle of an exam. When Lt. Schuyler Williamson and his soldiers found the boys, one had been beheaded, supposedly for helping the United States. "The face was beaten bloody," said Lt. Williamson. "It was obvious that the guy was tortured before his head was cut off." Still traumatized, the students soon faced another shock: they say the government used the murder as an excuse to cancel their test results. Then it turned to accusations of cheating. One boy and his mother say he missed last year's exams because he was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen for being Sunni. "I feel very frustrated," said the boy. "Like all the other students, we just want our scores released."
FEATURE-Excited children return to school in Baghdad
"Two days left, one day left, she's been counting the days," said Hiro's mother as she took her six-year-old youngest daughter to school for the first time. For children in Iraq, the start of the new academic year on Sunday was a welcome opportunity for them to leave their homes, don smart new clothes and catch up with their friends again. But for parents braving the streets of Baghdad on the school run, fear of bombs and kidnappings is the overriding emotion. And teachers in the relatively safer parts of central Baghdad are struggling to cope with floods of new pupils from nearby districts still riven by sectarian violence. "Of course they are happy, they do not realise the fear we are suffering because of the security situation," teacher Rihab Abboud said outside Amal primary school in the central Baghdad district of Karrada. Girls dressed in smart blue dresses, white blouses and with plaited hair, boys with new trainers, jeans and bright T-shirts, chat in groups, talk on mobile phones and chase each other round the playground. "I'm happy because this is the first day for my youngest daughter," said Hiro's mother, Um Issa, outside the Fatima Bint Assad school in Karrada. "But I'm happy and afraid at the same time. The streets are not safe." [But civilian deaths are down! The government says so! – dancewater]
U.S. Senate vote unites Iraqis in anger
Iraq's political leadership, in a rare show of unity, skewered a nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution passed last week that endorses the decentralization of Iraq through the establishment of semiautonomous regions. The measure, which calls for a relatively weak central government and strong regional authorities in Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish areas, has touched a nerve here, raising fears that the United States is planning to partition Iraq. "The Congress adopted this proposal based on an incorrect reading and unrealistic estimations of the history, present and future of Iraq," said Izzat Shahbandar, a member of former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's secular parliamentary bloc. He was reading from a statement also signed by preeminent Shiite Muslim religious parties and the main Sunni Arab bloc. "It represents a dangerous precedent to establishing the nature of the relationship between Iraq and the U.S.A.," the statement said, "and shows the Congress as if it were planning for a long-term occupation by their country's troops."
Restless Falluja: a peaceful city in Ramadan
Unlike its long history of bloody incidents and armed clashes, Anbar's Falluja city is living a renaissance of peace and hope this Ramadan with a drastic decrease in incidents of violence encouraging local residents to live their lives as fully as possible. Unlike previous years, the city's mosques are crowded with worshippers invoking God to relieve their distress and restore stability to their war-torn country. Sheikh Khaled Ahmed Saleh, an imam at al-Badawi mosque in central Falluja, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), "We thank God that peace reigns over the city during this month. We were unable to perform Taraweeh prayers (evening prayers during Ramadan) in mosques over the past few years. But now we pray, go to the markets, and visit our relatives." Sunni Falluja is distinguished among other Iraqi cities by its numerous minarets and its shish kebab. It is for this reason that the 53-year-old Hajj Abboud al-Sudra calls it "the city of minarets and kebab." "A religious spirit is uppermost at such times in the city, which is known for its many mosques and high and shining minarets," Sheikh al-Sudra said.
Cholera spreading through Iraq
Cholera, the contagious bacterial disease spreading through Iraq, is reportedly claiming 100 new victims a day in this war torn country. Doctor Amir al-Khuzai, the health ministry's point man in tackling the crisis, said the number of infections in Kirkuk had risen to 2,069 at the weekend from 1,671 earlier in the week. Twelve Iraqis are confirmed to have died of cholera since the outbreak was first detected on August 23, but the disease struck in Baghdad last week and a mass awareness campaign has been launched. A mass awareness campaign has been launched in Baghdad to combat the disease, that has claimed the lives of twelve Iraqis so far. Khuzai said that the latest health ministry statistics up to Sunday indicated that a total of 2,839 people had now become infected with the disease.
Basra quieter after UK pullout
Residents of Iraq's southern city of Basra have said that their city is much quieter since British troops' withdrawal from Basra. Political assassinations and sectarian violence continue, some city officials say, but on a much smaller scale than at any time since British troops moved into the city after the 2003 US-led invasion, Reuters reported. "The situation these days is better. We were living in hell ... the area is calm since their withdrawal," said a housewife. Civil servant Wisam Abdul Sada agreed. "We do not hear the sounds of explosions which were shaking our houses and terrifying our women and children," he said.
Civilian deaths in Iraq halve in Sept -government
Civilian deaths from violence across Iraq fell 50 percent in September, in line with a drop in U.S. military casualties attributed to a boost in troop numbers, Iraqi government data showed on Monday. Information from the health, interior and defence ministries registered 884 civilians killed in September, the lowest monthly total this year, down from 1,773 in August. The casualties were also the lowest since Washington began pouring an extra 30,000 troops into Iraq as part of a security crackdown aimed at al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab militants and Shi'ite militias across the country. "Although the extremists try to harm Iraqi citizens and their leaders, incite violence and derail the ongoing process of reconciliation, they are not succeeding," said the top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and ambassador Ryan Crocker. "Many of their foreign-born leaders are being killed and captured, and the levels of violence across the country, while still too high, are much lower than they were a year ago," they said in a joint statement. [And it has nothing to do with the fact that 20 – 25% of the population has fled or been killed. – dancewater]
Torture and Rape Reported in Iraqi Children's Prisons
Even children can be detained in Iraq placed in special jails. But that is not enough. They can also be raped, tortured and burned. That is the new picture emerging from the U.S.-led ‘liberation’ of a country that has been bleeding since U.S. and allies invaded it in 2003. But the prison disgrace is not this time directly linked to the country’s U.S. occupiers though the world has not yet forgotten their atrocities and inhuman practices at Abu Ghraib prison. The children languish in prisons administered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. It seems the only story of success U.S. invaders and their Iraqi lackeys can boast of is the construction of numerous prisons now available across the country. Arab satellite television channels shocked their viewers last week when they aired footage of children bearing marks of torture. The children were detained during military operations in Baghdad neighborhoods of Adhamiya, Latifiya, Doura and Hay al-Amel. The children had no capacity to commit any wrongdoing but they were jailed because they carried names revealing their sectarian identity.
FEATURE-Frustrated Iraqi teenagers rue long detentions
Teenager Ali Mohammed has been in an overcrowded Iraqi youth detention facility for five months. He says he has no idea what led him to be considered a security threat and struggles with a speech impediment as he tells his story. "They told me they would only question me for five minutes and I have been here since the 25th of April," the lightly-moustached and bare-footed Mohammed stuttered. "I suffer from epilepsy, a weak spine and a speech defect." Mohammed's case is just one of thousands of prolonged detentions that underline the Iraqi judicial system's struggle to sift through the large number of detainees held in Iraq. Tareq al-Hashemi, Iraq's Sunni vice president, visited western Baghdad's Ahdath youth detention centre last week in an effort to highlight the woeful state of detainees. Expressing surprise at Mohammed's detention, he asked what information he was likely to provide under questioning given his speech defect. "How are they going to interrogate him?" he told a group of journalists as he toured Ahdath where alleged security detainees are kept with all the others. Cases of lengthy detention without charge are an embarrassment to a government that says it promotes human rights and whose members, exiled or persecuted under Saddam Hussein's rule, criticised abuses carried out by his security forces.
REPORTS – IRAQI MILITIAS, POLITICIANS, POWER BROKERS
Karbala Bans Unauthorized Demonstrations
New instructions banning demonstrations in Karbala without the prior approval of local authorities and specifying jail sentences for those in violation were issued to clamp down on violence and restore order, Karbala Governor Aqil al-Khazali said on Sunday. "The organizers must inform local authorities 24 hours prior to the demonstration, which should not be held during rush hours: 07:30 a.m.-09:00 a.m. and 04:30 p.m.-06:00 p.m., with the exception of weekends," al-Khazali told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The demonstration should not exceed four hours. Firearms and tools that can cause harm to people are banned during the demonstration, which should not hinder the movement of ambulances and patrol cars," he indicated.
Iraq's armed groups form alliance
Several nationalist and Islamist armed groups have formed alliances in Iraq in what they say is a move to thwart a power struggle should the US military withdraw and the Iraqi government collapse. In July, groups including the The Islamic Army, The Army of Mujahidin, The Supporters of Sunni, and the Salafist group for Missionary Action and Fighting, got together to form the Reform and Jihad movement. This was followed in September by the Change and Reform Front, comprised of eight groups, including The 1920 Revolution Brigades and the Mohammed al-Fatih Brigades. The latter groups include senior members of the former Iraqi Army and Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guards. Fadil al-Rubaie, a member of the National Alliance, an Iraqi opposition movement in exile, believes that the unification of Iraq's "resistance groups" indicates a turning point after previous refusals by the Islamist groups to merge with nationalists. "Resistance groups are gearing up to meet that stage, where leading parties will be needed to lead and to prevent a potential militia war among many small groups," he said. Abu Anas, a member of the political bureau of Hamas of Iraq, an armed group opposed to the presence of US troops in Iraq, told Al Jazeera that Iraq's armed groups believe a US withdrawal is imminent. Anas said: "We are looking forward to the fall of the [Nuri] al-Maliki government, and the US withdrawal. We know it is coming, but I cannot predict when and how.
30,000 police, army soldiers to take part in Najaf security plan
No less than 30,000 Iraqi policemen and army soldiers deployed in the city of Najaf are to take part in the special security plan on the occasion of the anniversary of Imam Ali's death on 21st of Ramadan, the head of the eighth brigade of the Iraqi army said on Monday. Speaking at a joint press conference, held at the city hall in Najaf with Governor Asaad Sultan Abu Kalal, General Othman al-Ghanemi said that "he held a final security meeting with all security authorities in the city to determine the posts, where security forces will be deployed." Shiite Muslims are commemorating the anniversary of Imam Ali's death, by visiting his shrine in the city of Najaf and his two sons' shrines in the city of Karbala, 110 km southwest of Baghdad, starting from 19th of Ramadan, known as "the Wounding Day" until the 21st of Ramadan (the Martyrdom Day).
REPORTS – US/UK/OTHERS IN IRAQ
Texas oilman pleads guilty in Iraq oil/food case
Aging Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.
Destabilizing Iraq: The Saudi Role
A "clear" view of Iraq is now visible only through a blood-soaked kaleidoscope of contradictory and conflicting U.S. policies. While the Bush administration regularly lashes out at Syria and Iran for aiding militias and foreign fighters in Iraq, according to official U.S. military figures reported in the Los Angeles Times on July 15, about 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia. Fighters from the kingdom are believed to have carried out the majority of suicide bombings in Iraq. Who is to blame for the influx of fighters though? Gen. Mansour Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, however, blames forces inside of Iraq for the flow of Saudi human bombs into Iraq. If he is to be believed, "Saudis are actually being misused. Someone is helping them come to Iraq. Someone is helping them inside Iraq. Someone is recruiting them to be suicide bombers. We have no idea who these people are. We aren't getting any formal information from the Iraqi government." But Iraqis are quick to point the finger across the border. Lawmaker Sami Askari, an advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Askari accuses Saudi officials of following a deliberate policy of sowing chaos in Baghdad: "The fact is that Saudi Arabia has strong intelligence resources, and it would be hard to think that they are not aware of what is going on." Askari claims that imams at Saudi mosques regularly call for jihad against Iraq's Shi'ites and that the Saudi government had funded groups to cause chaos and bloodshed in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite south. But in large part this continues to be conveniently overlooked by the Bush administration so that massive arms packages can be sold to Saudi Arabia, access to the vast oil reserves continues unabated, and the Saudi royal family's long-standing connections to the Bush family remain unmentioned in mainstream circles.
U.S. Pays Steep Price For Private Security In Iraq
It costs the U.S. government a lot more to hire contract employees as security guards in Iraq than to use American troops. It comes down to the simple business equation of every transaction requiring a profit. The contract that Blackwater Security Consulting signed in March 2004 with Regency Hotel and Hospital of Kuwait for a 34-person security team offers a view into the private-security business world. The contract was made public last week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee majority staff as part of its report on Blackwater's actions related to an incident in Fallujah on March 31, 2004, when four members of the company's security team were killed in an ambush. According to data provided to the House panel, the average per-day pay to personnel Blackwater hired was $600. According to the schedule of rates, supplies and services attached to the contract, Blackwater charged Regency $1,075 a day for senior managers, $945 a day for middle managers and $815 a day for operators. [And Iraq pays a much steeper price. - dancewater]
Pentagon Gives Blackwater New Contract
A U.S.-based private security firm received a contract worth up to 92 million dollars from the Department of Defence amid hard questions about its involvement in two separate violent incidents in Iraq.
U.S. Senate approves $150B in war funding
Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [And that’s because they agree with keeping troops in Iraq. – dancewater]
U.S. Is Top Arms Seller to Developing World
The United States maintained its role as the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world in 2006, followed by Russia and Britain, according to a Congressional study to be released Monday. Pakistan, India and Saudi Arabia were the top buyers. The global arms market is highly competitive, with manufacturing nations seeking both to increase profits and to expand political influence through weapons sales to developing nations, which reached nearly $28.8 billion in 2006. That sales total was a slight drop from the 2005 figure of $31.8 billion, a trend explained by the strain of rising fuel prices that prompted many developing states - except those that produce oil - to choose upgrading current arsenals over buying new weapons. The report, "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations," was produced by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, and presents a number of interesting observations linking arms sales and global politics. For example, Russia has been a major supplier of weapons to Iran in past years, including a $700 million deal for surface-to-air missiles in 2005.
IRAQI REFUGEES
No Going Back: Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis
"You have now entered Iraq," my taxi driver joked. We had in fact just entered Sayida Zeinab, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus. This shrine city, long a destination for Shia pilgrims, had become home to an estimated one million Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria. "Everybody is Iraqi," laughed another driver after several people he had asked for directions replied in Iraqi Arabic that they did not know. Indeed, walking through the alleys of Sayida Zeinab I felt as though I were in Iraq, except it was safe. After nearly three years in the war-torn country, I had started to fear Iraqi men; all strangers were potential kidnappers. On a different street I found three Sunni friends from Baquba. Firas had been shot a year earlier; his brother had been killed. He and Hamza had fled with their families to Syria one month earlier after Shia militiamen attacked their homes. Ali had been in Syria for a year and a half. In Iraq three of his uncles had been killed in front of his eyes and a cousin had also been murdered. "Because we are Sunnis," he said, when I asked him why. "My school is gone. My father has no work. I'm never going back." Unlike many Shia refugees in Syria, mostly men who have come alone in search of work, most of the Sunnis and other Iraqi minorities have fled with their families. Since the spring of 2003 up to three million have fled Iraq, adding to the two or three million Iraqis who had been exiled before the overthrow of Saddam. All together, they compose a vast Iraqi diaspora throughout the Arab world, with the largest numbers in Syria (about 1.7 million) and Jordan (about 750,000). At least another two million are internally displaced, stranded inside Iraq, with many seeking shelter in Kurdistan. Kristele Younes of the Washington, D.C.-based Refugees International, who recently completed a tour of the affected countries, estimates that 50,000 are displaced within Iraq each month and tens of thousands are leaving. Few can imagine returning home. [This article by Nir Rosen is worth reading in it’s entirety. – dancewater]
Iraqi Refugees Face Syria Visa Restraint
Syria began requiring visas for Iraqis entering the country Monday, hoping to stem the flow of refugees fleeing violence in their homeland, a Syrian official said. An estimated 1.5 million Iraqis have already fled to Syria, at a rate that increased after Jordan began imposing its own strict visa restrictions on Iraqis. The two countries have repeatedly appealed for financial help, saying the refugees are burdening their security, health, and education infrastructure. Syria originally announced on Sept. 1 that it would impose the visa requirement in 10 days. It later said the change would be postponed until after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ends around Oct. 12. But the government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the requirement instead began Monday. He gave no explanation.
Palestinian refugees in Iraq caught in the crossfire
Palestinian refugees living in Iraq are the hidden victims of the Iraq conflict -- suffering threats, torture, killings and appalling living conditions in refugee camps such al-Waleed near the Syrian border, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Since 2003, scores of Palestinians have been abducted by armed groups with their bodies being found later in morgues or dumped on the streets, often mutilated or with clear marks of torture. Many others have been forced to flee their homes after receiving death threats
JORDAN: Some Iraqi refugees resort to begging
Ali Abdul Rahman, a 12-year-old Iraqi immigrant, joins an army of Jordanian beggars as they throng the vibrant streets of Amman in their tattered clothes, seeking a handout during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Thousands of Iraqi immigrants have seen their life savings depleted by the high cost of living in Jordan, and some - including children like Ali - have now resorted to begging. After eating a Ramadan meal provided by philanthropists in west Amman, he goes to a busy square and sits silently in a dark corner waiting for the coins to drop. He said his father was killed two years ago when masked men attacked their house in Adhamiyah, a Baghdad suburb, and now he has to try and help look after his mother and two sisters: "My mother cannot work. I do not want her to come and beg. I am the man of the house and must help them," he said, adding: "This waiting can last 8-10 hours a day."
Ali's case is indicative of the increasing degradation felt by many of the 700,000 Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
How to Help Iraqi Refugees
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COMMENTARY
And the war drags on
The Illusion of Dividing and Conquering in Iraq
What's most disturbing about this resolution is its hubris. No matter what the origins of the Iraqi nation are (and they include colonial maneuvering by Britain and others after World War I) the fact is that it is a nation and the only people who should have any say in its division are the Iraqis. For the United States to decide that it wants the country to disintegrate is the height of arrogance. In fact, the only act that could be more arrogant would be to invade and occupy the country. Oh wait...that's already been done.
What this proves again is that Washington believes it rules the world. This belief is held by members of both the ruling parties and is essential to understanding how and why the US acts the way it does in the world. In a manner similar to the way Bill Clinton and company divided Yugoslavia according to its needs and desires at Dayton back in the 1990s, the Biden resolution is another effort at making a part of the world unwilling to bend to US control more controllable. Despite the repeated references to Yugoslavia and its partition by outside powers, the policy of partition did not begin there. Indeed, it's quite reasonable to argue that the US (via the United Nations Security Council) utilized the same device after World War Two in Korea and Vietnam with mixed results at best. Korea remains divided and Vietnam has been a singular nation since the US military defeat in 1975. Both nations suffered horrific wars that killed millions of their citizens.
…..Partitioning Iraq is not a solution that is Washington's to make. The recent vote by the US Senate is misguided. In addition, it will do little to further the desire of the US public to bring the troops home. Instead, it will put US forces in the position of maintaining the newly created divisions along new lines in the sand. Senator Biden's resolution is not a solution. It is another false approach that has as much chance at success as anything tried by the Bush administration. In other words, it is destined to fail.
U.S. sees Iraq as own ranch
The vote by U.S. Congress to divided Iraq is a declaration that the political process emanating from the constitution, elections and leaders of this country has been thrown into the dustbin. It is not important whether the resolution by the U.S. Congress is binding or non-binding. If Iraq was a country with sovereignty, no state even the size of the United States would dare to discuss details of how to divide it into parts. Can you imagine the French General Assembly debating a resolution to divide Morocco, Algeria or Lebanon? On my table I have the Egyptian al-Ahram newspaper whose banner headline reiterates that Cairo rejects any U.S. meddling in its internal affairs in response to a demand by Washington to expedite the appeal of jailed editors. The U.S. Congress and administration behave on the basis that Iraq belongs to them. In political rhetoric this is an advantage because they turn their words into deeds. They have come to this conclusion after it became clear that they are no longer capable of carrying out their military strategy in Iraq. That is the lesson they have learned from the nearly five years of a ferocious war.
RESISTANCE
Raiding homes in Iraq, refusing to return
An interview with Mark Wilkerson by Aaron Glantz, co-produced by Sarah Olson, for KPFA Radio August 18, 2007. 19 min. audio edited by Courage to Resist (complete transcript). Live broadcast available here. Following his presentation at the Courage to Resist hosted workshop at the 2007 Veterans for Peace National Convention in St. Louis, Mark sat down with Aaron Glantz and David Cortright, author of "Soldiers in Revolt". Mark was a Army MP in Iraq. He talks about joining the military, the reality of the Iraq occupation, his five months in the Fort Sill brig, and how people can better support today's GI resisters. At the time of this interview, Mark had just been released from the brig only days earlier.
Returning the medals, via an email I received:
Fifty students, community members and veterans walked a brisk pace down the middle of State Street in a bee-line through downtown Madison Wisconsin into the halls of the giant White State House Capitol Building. Joshua Gaines, wearing black and carrying his medals in a postal envelope. walked five paces ahead. "We Support War Resisters. They're our brothers they're our sisters," the group chanted as we walked through the streets and into the capital. Once in the building, chants echoing off the marble walls, Joshua thanked everyone for their support and placed his medals—in an envelope—in the mail box. Afterwards the group met with the Governor's Office to call for the State National Guard to returning to state control and bring them home. At a brief prior gathering at the University of Wisconsin the new Students for a Democratic Society, Campus Anti-War Network, community members, and Vietnam Veteran Will Williams, Gulf War I veteran Aimee Allison, and Iraq veteran Todd Dennis stood by Josh Gaines' side as he explained his actions.
Joshua Gaines stated in part: “Mr. Rumsfeld, the medals given to me have no merit to my time in the service. As a U.S. soldier, I feel that the war on terror should begin here at home by putting to rest the false and ludicrous notion that we are safer fighting in Iraq than by sending our troops home today. With massive corporate interests and privatized security in Iraq that rape the American taxpayer and have little—if any—oversight, I see a grave injustice to the American taxpayers, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded innocents on all sides. For my country, I swore an oath to protect the constitution of the United States at all costs, from enemies foreign and domestic, not to become a pawn in your New American Century.”
New Blog: Iraq Oil Report
Quote of the day: “We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of genocide? There are no limits to our greed, and neither to our cruelty. And as long as such crimes are committed by stealth and by individuals, they are less harmful and less portentous; but cruelties are practiced in accordance with acts of the senate or of a popular assembly, and the public is invited to do that which formerly was forbidden to the individual. So we come to this clearest manifestation of insanity: that deeds which rightfully would be punished with a sentence of death when committed by an ordinary man, are suddenly praised and celebrated when committed by a general wearing a uniform.” –Seneca
Photo: Analysts say that unified armed groups could have the resources to attempt to gain control of towns and villages [AP] From Al Jazeera website.
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