- All This Talk of Civil War, Now This (March 2, 2004)
...'ida has never uttered a threat against Shias - even though al-Qa'ida is a Sunni-only organisation. Yet for weeks, the American occupation authorities have... - No Victory In Falluja (November 22, 2004)
...ies across central Iraq, and the predictable political backlash within the Sunni community began. As a result, Sunni participation in the elections is more... - Iraqi Civil War Brewing (August 29, 2003)
...ns were incompatible in ethnicity, religious confession and interests. The Sunni Muslim Kurds occupied the north. The Sunni Arab Bedouins occupied the cent... - New Flag Raises Anger Among Iraqi Students (April 28, 2004)
...amic unity," the Mosul students chanted, proclaiming their solidarity with Sunni Muslim fighters battling US marines in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and with... - Signs That Shiites and Sunnis Are Joining to Battle Americans (April 9, 2004)
...vil war between Shiite Muslims, who make up a majority in the country, and Sunni Muslims, who held all the power under Saddam Hussein. Now the fear is t... - Rallying Around an Insurgent City (April 9, 2004)
...tors said, has recast the city long known as the epicenter of the volatile Sunni Triangle as a freshly minted emblem of shared religious identity. Since... - Ansar al-Islam Founder Thinks New Attacks on US Unlikely (December 28, 2003)
...e together with Ahmad Chalabi's and Iyad Allawi's militias to confront the Sunni forces, especially in the Al-A'zamiyah area. He said that it is unlikel... - The Fallujah Gamble Begins (November 9, 2004)
...Fallujah, which is about 50km west of Baghdad, in the heartlands of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority. Among them, it is believed, are foreign Islamist militant... - Iraq's Allawi Interviewed on Elections, Wanted Iraqis in Syria, Ties With Jordan (December 23, 2004)
...g the elections. This is in addition to nationalist Arab currents and the (Sunni) Association of Muslim Scholars. This issue is not confined to the Sunni o... - Suicide Bomber Wounds 58 US Soldiers in Iraq (December 9, 2003)
...r three Iraqis, killed when a bomb hidden beneath a car exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad shortly after morning prayers, Iraqi police said.... - Hizbollah Leader Says Group Not Linked To al Qaeda (July 14, 2002)
...Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation. Al Qaeda belongs to the larger Sunni sect of Islam. Nasrallah said he was not opposed to working with Sunni... - America Brings Democracy: Censor Now, Vote Later (June 22, 2003)
...ed remnants of Mr. Hussein's Baath Party could win legitimacy and power in Sunni-dominated parts of central Iraq. Mr. Hussein is a member of the country's... - Think the Unthinkable: Partition Iraq (May 18, 2004)
...Iraq or at least the creation of a loose confederation in which the Kurds, Sunni and Shia would autonomously govern their own affairs. Had the Clinton admi... - Why the Mullahs Love a Revolution (April 24, 2003)
...n the face of a common occupying power, existed even before 1638, when the Sunni Ottoman Turks took control of Mesopotamia and made the Sunnis a ruling min... - Why the Capture Could Make Things Worse (December 21, 2003)
... die by the sword. But there were no such demon strations Sunday in the Sunni parts of Baghdad, and what has come to be known as the Sunni triangle all... - US Troops Attacked at Fallujah Power Station (June 24, 2003)
...bags erected as a protection wall outside the utility. The conservative Sunni Muslim town has been a flashpoint since US troops shot dead at least 16 Ir... - Iraq Pullout Deadline Ruled Out (November 23, 2004)
...aised the possibility of delaying them to ensure the full participation of Sunni Arabs. "We would prefer inclusiveness by giving them more time rather t... - Kurdish Region in Northern Iraq Will Keep Special Status (January 5, 2004)
...ittee chairman is Adnan Pachachi, a former Iraqi foreign minister who is a Sunni Muslim. "There is a substantial agreement that the status quo in the Ku... - Courting Disaster: Bush’s Real Strategy in Iraq (June 1, 2004)
...I’m talking about the real, behind-the-scenes plan. In the battles for the Sunni town of Falluja and the Shiite cities south of Baghdad, the Bush administr... - Ties Frayed Between US and Iraqi Council (November 10, 2003)
...d enshrine Kurdish rights to autonomy in their northern homeland. Minority Sunni Muslims, once the dominant political force in Iraq, resent the influence o... - Senior UN Official Warns Time Not Right For Elections (December 5, 2004)
...pite the end of US-led assaults on rebel cities south and west of Baghdad, Sunni Muslim Iraqis also stepped up calls to delay January's landmark polls. ... - They Look Like al Qaeda (July 28, 2002)
...d spent two years in prison for the murder of two activitst of the violent Sunni muslim group Sipa-e-Sahaba. Legal costs for the case had bankrupted the fa... - Iraq: Clerics Say U.S. Will Pay Dearly If It Attacks Al-Fallujah, Al-Najaf (April 23, 2004)
...s would pay a heavy price if its forces unleashed a fresh offensive on the Sunni city of Al-Fallujah or attacked the Shi'a holy city of Al-Najaf. Re... - Shia Protests Spread to Basra (April 6, 2004)
...ith dozens killed or injured. Elsewhere, US troops have sealed off the Sunni town of Falluja where four Americans were killed last week. Mr Sadr is... - Illusions of Iraqi Democracy (October 8, 2002)
...ely be resistance from the security forces, the Republican Guards and some Sunni tribes. These forces will fight because their very survival is at stake --... - Only 200 Hard-Core Qaeda Members (July 29, 2002)
...ght start focusing on trying to utilize each other's support networks." Sunni and Shia Muslims have long been rivals. Historically, an ideological divis... - Civil War In Iraq, Made In the USA (August 4, 2005)
...s agreed that while civil war was a distinct possibility between Kurds and Sunni Arabs, a Sunni-Shiite conflict was highly unlikely because of factors such... - Saddam Husayn Denies Any Link to Al-Najaf Explosion (September 1, 2003)
...s the leader of all the great Iraqi people -- Arabs and Kurds; Shiites and Sunnis; Muslims and non-Muslims. Saddam Husayn does not attribute this saying to... - US Launches Massive Crackdown in Iraq (December 18, 2003)
...tion charges to open doors swept into the town of Samarra in the so-called Sunni Muslim "triangle" in northern and central Iraq where Saddam had his powerb... - All Eyes on the Man Who Stepped into Iraqi Inferno (June 30, 2004)
...im more acceptable to the Sunnis. The art of the deal will be in winning a Sunni embrace before the Shiites spurn him. As a member of the first US-appoi... - Iraqi Leaders Reject Election Fears (September 16, 2004)
... the UN and interim government follows fierce fighting this week in Iraq's Sunni Arab provinces and in Baghdad. A series of kidnappings of foreigners has a... - US Pursues Ex-Generals to Topple Iraq Leader (March 11, 2002)
...nterim Afghan government of Hamid Karzai. The officers on the list are all Sunni Muslims, like Hussein. The State Department denies that report, saying... - 'Scores of Civilians' Killed in Falluja (November 9, 2004)
... the onslaught began. Overnight US bombardments hit a clinic inside the Sunni Muslim city, killing doctores, nurses and patients, residents said. US mil... - All the Makings of a War Crime (November 8, 2004)
...i city of Falluja, about 64 kilometers west of Baghdad and a key center of Sunni population in Iraq. This city has for many months held out as a center of... - Karbala Attackers Reported To Have Taken $60,000 (February 13, 2004)
... money. The organizer of the attack is thought to be an Islamic fanatic Sunni organization, a branch of Ansar al-Islam, which works from outside. One of... - Interim Iraqi Government (June 1, 2004)
...appointed Iraqi Governing Council. The 45-year-old US-educated moderate Sunni and former exile has strong ties to Washington, but has been sharply criti... - To Vote Or Not To Vote (December 2, 2004)
...her independent non-religious movements. "The real issue is not about a Sunni boycott versus Shia participation," Al- Husseini insisted. "It is about wh... - Struck Down in Baghdad, US Tries to Involve the United Nations (January 19, 2004)
...nt? Can one cede power without provoking hostilities from the Kurds or the Sunnis? The problem must be solved before the summer, if possible, so that Presid... - His Sons Are Dead But Saddam Lives (July 23, 2003)
... killing US troops every day are also being attacked by a growing Islamist Sunni movement which never had any love for Saddam. Much more importantly, many... - How Bombs Tore Apart a Festival of Hope (March 2, 2004)
...ulated to cause a rift within Iraq, and the greater Islamic world, between Sunni and Shia. This year's vast ceremonies to mark Ashoura were about Shia p... - Iraqi Shiite Split Widens (October 15, 2003)
...ent Shiite leader." One of the principal differences between Shiite and Sunni Islam, which split in the 7th century in a dispute over who should lead th... - US Troops Hit Mosque in Iraq (April 8, 2004)
...k on a mosque in central Fallujah on Wednesday as violence spread from the Sunni town of Fallujah to Shiite cities south of the capital city of Baghdad.... - Angry Iraqi Town Buries Nine Police Killed by US (September 13, 2003)
...disperse demonstrators when the first coffin was carried to a cemetery. Sunni Muslim clerics issued a "Declaration by the people of Falluja" condemning... - Red Cross Condemns 'Inhumanity' In Iraq (November 20, 2004)
...owledged yesterday that the uprising posed a bigger obstacle to rebuilding Sunni-dominated areas now than six weeks ago. William Taylor said it would b... - Hussein Was Not in Hiding But a Captive (December 14, 2003)
... in captivity, guerrilla activity declined markedly – especially in the Sunni Triangle towns of Falluja, Ramadi and Balad — while surging outside thi... - Fallujah Death Toll 600, Official Says (April 11, 2004)
...ce, sporadic sniper fire continued Sunday in the battle for control of the Sunni militia stronghold. Two marines were wounded. The ceasefire was part o... - Drowned Iraqi 'Was Forced Into River By Five US Soldiers' (February 14, 2004)
...ir in which she demands a full inquiry into her son's death. Samarra, a Sunni city and one of the main centres of Iraqi resistance to the American occup... - Iraqi PM prepared to offer amnesty to insurgents (July 5, 2004)
...roposed amnesty is not likely to be greeted with enthusiasm by the largely Sunni resistance it is intended to address. Abdel Jabar al-Kobeisi, editor of... - US Blames Blast on Bomb Class as Iraqi Ire Simmers (July 2, 2003)
...ding at the damaged al-Hassan mosque. Residents of Falluja, a hotbed of Sunni Muslim anti-U.S. sentiment, were in no mood to listen. Two rocket-prope... - Seeking an Angle in the Sunni Triangle (November 4, 2003)
...TARMIYAH, Iraq — Here in the heart of the Sunni Triangle, former regime loyalists — or FRLs, as the GIs call them — are as... - Saddam's July 8th Speech (July 8, 2003)
...aq to say: Your main task now -- as Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen; Shiites and Sunnis; Muslims and Christians; and under all titles and of all religions and den... - Seeking Honesty in US Policy (September 14, 2003)
...q. Our 130,000 soldiers in Iraq now confront an angry but not yet defeated Sunni Muslim population who, although a minority in Iraq, had been in power for... - World Powers, Neighbours Unite Behind Iraqi Elections In January (November 23, 2004)
...rence before the elections. On the ground, a cleric from Iraq's leading Sunni authority was gunned down north of Baghdad, the second member of the influ... - Kurds' Deaths Could Alter Iraq's Shape (February 2, 2004)
...ons. A powerful Shiite cleric has demanded elections by May 31 but many Sunni and Kurdish groups oppose holding them that soon. Shias comprise more than... - US Soldier Jailed For Shooting Dead Wounded Iraqi Civilian (December 11, 2004)
...and unarmed in Fallujah. Military commanders claim their assault on the Sunni Muslim city crippled Iraq's insurgency, but eight coalition soldiers were... - Time to Leave (June 3, 2004)
...tes withdraws its forces, Iraq could face a violent power struggle between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds or between rival factions of the same sectari... - Orgy of Violence as More Die in Iraq (April 1, 2004)
...killed in a rebel attack on their four-wheel-drive vehicles in Fallujah, a Sunni Triangle city about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Baghdad, scene of som... - Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
...ing and dominating the discussion of holy war among the various strains of Sunni fundamentalism, which has become a significant force in every Middle Easte... - Murder Warrant Issued for Shiite Cleric Months Ago: U.S. (April 5, 2004)
... as well as two battalions of Iraqi forces. They will move into the mainly Sunni Muslim city to look for insurgents loyal to former leader Saddam Hussein.... - US Told to Avoid Main Shia Area in Baghdad (October 10, 2003)
... who until now have not joined in attacks against US forces seen mainly in Sunni areas. Dozens of armed Shia militiamen stood guard at the site of the... - Doubts on Iraqi Security as US Draws Down (February 17, 2004)
...icing doubts about Iraq's ability to handle such hot spots as the volatile Sunni triangle west and north of Baghdad. The audacious assault here Saturday... - US Strikes Raze Falluja Hospital (November 6, 2004)
...ssault. UN chief Kofi Annan has warned against an attack on the restive Sunni city. It is the third time since the end of the US-led war that US and... - Fight to the Death (December 19, 2003)
...interest in Fanar Al-Kharbit. There is little doubt that as a sheik in the Sunni hotbed between Ramadi and Faluja, Fanar Al-Kharbit knows more than he lets... - The 'Iraqization' Scam (April 20, 2004)
...d under Saddam’s rule. Thus, the growing solidarity between Shiites and Sunnis in their opposition to what they see as U.S. hegemony will likely continue... - Federal Reserve (March 17, 2003)
...stability we want in the Middle East to have Iraq fragmented into separate Sunni, Shia, and Kurd political entities." Specifically, Foggy Bottom fears that... - Losses, Before Bullets Fly (March 7, 2003)
...s ? the day after Saddam has toppled, when we may see Shiites slaughtering Sunnis in southern Iraq; thousands of armed Iraqi exiles pouring in from Iran; Tu... - Shiites Feel Betrayed by Americans (July 2, 2003)
..., public optimism has been waning and resentment has increased in Iraq. In Sunni Arab areas, in particular, resistance has increased among remnants of the... - Toll Grows as Attacks on Troops Get Smarter (June 11, 2003)
...ears to be most intense in a region west and north of Baghdad dominated by Sunni Muslims, who were at the core of the Baath party and Saddam's government. ... - Hussein's Capture May Not Stop Attacks (December 15, 2003)
...f them worshiping Saddam Hussein every day." Most of the insurgents are Sunni Islamists, foreign fighters, and ordinary Iraqis who simply have tired of... - Sectarian Discord in Iraq (February 13, 2004)
...edented in this country; namely, a sectarian war. The US has dismissed the Sunni sect and dealt with it as a terrorist sect because Saddam was Sunni. It fa... - Iraq Rebels Oppose US Strike to Topple Gov't (June 29, 2002)
...p to 8,000 fighters operating inside Iraq. It has vowed to topple Saddam's Sunni Muslim-dominated government. "We are living a state of great worry ...... - The Crime We Must Prevent (December 4, 2002)
...sible, since they compose 65 percent of Iraq's population compared to Arab Sunnis who — at 15 percent — dominate Saddam's regime. Wouldn't the world blam... - Britain Tried First. Iraq Was No Picnic Then. (July 20, 2003)
... appears increasingly beset. It has not been going well, especially in Sunni-controlled central Iraq. Rather than being hailed as liberators, the Ameri... - War Casualties Overflow Washington Hospital (August 3, 2003)
...resistance fighters, especially in cities north and west of Baghdad, where Sunni Muslims were the strongest supporters of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.... - US Soldiers Bulldoze Iraqi Crops (October 12, 2003)
...e farmers for not informing on the resistance which is very active in this Sunni Muslim district. "They made a sort of joke against us by playing jazz m... - Iraqi Unrest Grows as More Soldiers Die (July 21, 2003)
... town about 50 miles west of the northern city of Mosul. Far from Iraq's ''Sunni Triangle'' in which most attacks have occurred, it was the first such atta... - Purported al-Qaida Statement on Madrid Bombings (March 11, 2004)
...after the September 11 attacks. We want to inform those who kill Muslim Sunni scholars (Ulamaa') in Iraq to come to a halt otherwise … We would like... - Iraqi Governing Council Members Denounce U.S. Actions (April 9, 2004)
...Governing Council today criticized the U.S.-led military operations in the Sunni-dominated city of Al-Fallujah, begun after the slayings of four U.S. civil... - Why the Anti-War Movement Was Right (April 16, 2003)
...orld might take that the wrong way? If there is one thing that could bring Sunnis and Shiites together, it's the common hatred of evangelical zealots who de... - How to Get Out of Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...ature." Except for a relatively small number of Saddam Hussein's fellow Sunni Arabs who worked for his regime, the peoples of Iraq are much better off t... - Karzai Appeals to Iran and US to Make Up (February 25, 2002)
... to bring down the Taliban. Iran, a Shiite Muslim country, had opposed the Sunni Muslim Taliban from the time they gained control of Afghanistan in 1996. ... - Chechen Attacks on Russia: A Harbinger for the United States? (September 6, 2004)
...occupation of those nations. In Iraq, U.S. forces have lost control of the Sunni cities of Falluja, Ramadi, and Samarra to the Islamists. Although for the... - The Fire is Spreading... (November 9, 2004)
...eed a fatwa on this issue as this matter is clear." Also today, a major Sunni political party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, has withdrawn from the Iraqi Int... - Toothless 'Interim Council' Roars Against the Press (September 24, 2003)
... As it is, even reporting yesterday's killing — or killings — near the Sunni city of Falujah by a missile-firing American helicopter — could fall into... - Iran Rejects Military Rule by US in Iraq (October 25, 2002)
...ent for Iraq’s majority Shia population, who have been ruled by a despotic Sunni regime for decades, and to see the elimination of thousands of Iranian Muj... - The Perils Of Empire (April 20, 2003)
.... The region is still criss-crossed with rivalries and blood feuds between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Conservative sheiks sit uneasily upon their precarious... - Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya Come Under Renewed US Criticism (April 13, 2004)
...dly killed more than 600 Iraqis. Shocking images of burnt bodies in the Sunni stronghold, as well as those of dead or wounded and bloodied women and chi... - US Fires on Iraqi Protesters, Hospital Reports (April 29, 2003)
... the town of Fallujah, roughly 30 miles west of Baghdad. The predominantly Sunni Muslim area provided strong support for Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. C... - Kurds Brush Up on Human Rights (March 11, 2003)
...de the Kurds from the Arabs, the Kurds from other Kurds, the Shia from the Sunni," says Hero Anwar, a program manager for REACH, a local Kurdish NGO that o... - US Soldiers Fire Into Baghdad Crowd (August 14, 2003)
...ty, formerly known as Saddam City, is a Shiite stronghold in the otherwise Sunni Muslim-dominated capital. "We're peaceful people, but one edict [from... - Tough New Tactics by US Tighten Grip on Iraqi Towns (December 7, 2003)
...of the military and political realities faced by soldiers in the so-called Sunni triangle, the area north and west of Baghdad that is generating the most v... - Iraqi Plan Calls for Full Elections Within 2 Years (December 16, 2003)
..., without harming bystanders. Samarra, a volatile town in the so-called Sunni Triangle to the north and west of Baghdad, was the scene of an intense bat... - Baghdad Residents Protest US Troops (April 18, 2003)
...itary presence after the prayers, and called for solidarity between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslims. In the Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyeh, thousand... - US Adopts Aggressive Tactics in Guerrilla War (July 28, 2003)
... attacks has declined in the area northwest of Baghdad dominated by Iraq's Sunni minority, long a base of support for Hussein. In this triangle-shaped regi... - Rumsfeld Admits Number of Security Forces May Have Been Underestimated (December 7, 2003)
... is responsible for a portion of northern Iraq that includes much of the ''Sunni Triangle,'' where anti-American violence is greatest, Rumsfeld raised the... - Live From Baghdad (November 25, 2002)
...hout a strongman like Saddam, Iraq could descend into violent strife among Sunni Muslims, Shi'ite Muslims and Kurds. "I've told my wife to stop listening t... - US Unprepared to Prevent Rise of Fundamentalist Iraqi Government (April 23, 2003)
... 60 percent of the population, compared with less than 20 percent for the Sunnis that have long dominated Iraqi political life. Shiite Muslims, who make up... - Messy Business: The Crumbling Of Iraqi State-Run Industry (October 9, 2004)
...aid.) He returned to Iraq after the war to a senior position in a moderate Sunni political party that sat on the governing council. Last year there was... - Why Aren't US Journalists Reporting From Iraq? (September 12, 2002)
...uch as they hate their dictator, Iraqis hate the Islamists even more. As a Sunni Muslim, so does Saddam. As in the 1980s, this creepy strongman is standing... - Plan B (June 28, 2004)
... their historic homeland. “If Kirkuk is threatened by the Kurds, the Sunni insurgents will move in there, along with the Turkomen, and there will be... - Four Bombings Kill 13 in Iraq (December 28, 2003)
...yal to former president Saddam Hussein has continued to buffet Baghdad and Sunni Muslim areas of central Iraq, the recent bombings had for the most part sp... - Negroponte Chosen as US Ambassador to Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...ts abroad. It is probable those figures would come one each from the Shia, Sunni and Kurd factions. The exercise will be portrayed by London and Washing... - GIs in Iraq Scoff at Re-Enlistment Bonus (January 7, 2004)
...ombat zone. But along the road leading north from Baghdad and into the "Sunni Triangle," the heartland of Saddam Hussein's support and the center of ant... - Saddam Hussein Captured by US Forces (December 15, 2003)
...g believed that Hussein had 20 to 30 hiding holes secreted throughout the "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad, and that he moved between them regularly, perh... - US Facing Bigger Bill For Iraq War (December 1, 2002)
...ert a civil war between ethnic factions, which include Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south. "It's a no-brainer that this is... - FBI to Seek Iraqis if War Hits (March 18, 2003)
...along with other refugees he has deep disdain for Hussein, a member of the Sunni Muslim mainstream. "We hate Saddam Hussein more than Bush [does]," Alub... - Phoenix Rising (January 1, 2004)
... a former CIA analyst, will to go to restive tribal sheikhs, especially in Sunni-dominated central Iraq. "I assume there are CIA people going around with b... - War Tactics – Again (November 22, 2003)
...mbardment also have been employed to the north of Baghdad, in parts of the Sunni Triangle. The area is home to many members of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority... - Troops Set to Take Out Fallujah's "Bad Guys" (April 6, 2004)
...massive response to pacify Fallujah, one of the most violent cities in the Sunni Triangle, the heartland of the anti-US insurgency north and west of Baghda... - Bush's Vietnam (June 23, 2003)
...ed to dismiss the Vietnamese as "communists". Recently, in Falluja, in the Sunni heartland of Iraq, it was clearly not the presence of Ba'athists or Saddam... - Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
...ere convoys of trucks, carrying aid and probably weapons. Men from all the Sunni areas, I was told, were coming to Fallujah to fight, a situation that one... - Al-Qaeda or Not, Al-Zarqawi's Worth $10m (February 18, 2004)
...y 1. Two days later, Jaish Ansar al-Sunna, a resistance group based in the Sunni triangle that had warned people aiding the occupation, claimed responsibil... - Iraq Council Recommends Allawi for Prime Minister in Spite, or Because, of US Ties (May 28, 2004)
...the new government. Allawi's following includes secular Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Kurds. He is also the top security official on the current Gov... - US Anti-Guerrilla Campaign Draws Iraqi Ire (June 16, 2003)
...pril 9, the bulk of them in the areas west and north of Baghdad, primarily Sunni Arab regions considered to be supportive of Mr. Hussein's regime-on-the-ru... - CIA Plans New Iraqi Spy Agency Using Baathist Agents (December 11, 2003)
...officials with knowledge of the program said they are worried that various Sunni or Shiite factions could eventually use the service to secretly undermine... - US to Appoint Council in Iraq (June 2, 2003)
...at allowing Iraqis to choose their leadership could deepen schisms between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, ethnic Arabs and Kurds, as well as formerly exiled pol... - How Not to Overthrow Saddam (July 15, 2002)
...ited States would eventually be satisfied with another dictatorship of the Sunni military elite. Before considering the problems it would face in a pos... - Top Officers Fear Wide Civil Unrest (March 20, 2003)
...d under Hussein's government, which like those before it is run chiefly by Sunni Muslims. With U.S. encouragement, they rose up after the Persian Gulf War... - Iraq: Unrest Sparks New Debate Over U.S. Strategy (April 6, 2004)
...from Saddam Hussein loyalists and other anti-U.S. parties in the so-called Sunni Triangle -- particularly in the flashpoint city of Al-Fallujah. U.S. force... - US Paves Way for War on Iraq (March 27, 2002)
...p alleviate the threat to the stability of the Saudi royal family posed by Sunni Islamic militants for whom the US military presence is a burning issue. Os... - George Bush's New Imperialism (August 4, 2002)
...ree utterly disparate, mutually hostile regions: Kurdish tribal lands; the Sunni Muslim region around Baghdad, then a small city with a predominantly Jewis... - U.S. Tanks Enter Najaf Cemetery to Pursue Insurgents (May 15, 2004)
...raq's Shiite majority. In other areas of the country such as the so-called Sunni Triangle outside Baghdad, U.S. forces have attacked mosques when insurgent... - Another Day, Another Death-Trap for US (September 19, 2003)
... more grenades were launched at the Americans. Again, according to the Sunni Muslim Iraqis of this traditionally Saddamite town, the Americans fired ba... - You Break It, You Pay For It (December 22, 2004)
...oying Falluja in the name of preparing the city for elections, much of the Sunni leadership would be forced to call for an election boycott. When Kristo... - Hold Bush to His Lie (February 5, 2004)
...o do with the epic battles over who will rule Iraq. "There really is not a Sunni way to pick up the garbage versus a Shiite way," he tells me. (Perhaps, bu... - On the Dark Side of Democracy (January 31, 2004)
...babwe, Venezuela, Russia and the Middle East." With its volatile mix of Sunnis (the elite Muslim minority favored by Saddam Hussein), Shiites (the genera... - Grueling Duties in Prison, Rounds of Golf on its Roof (May 7, 2004)
...rines in Al Fallujah," Ryan wrote last month, referring to the city in the Sunni Triangle where U.S. troops have faced off with militants. "The Marines wan... - US Asks Former Baathist Army Officers to Help Create Force (April 23, 2004)
... "by act, not speech." In prayers at another major mosque in Baghdad, a Sunni cleric warned U.S. commanders not to launch another attack on Fallujah. ... - Iraqi Insurgents Take Page from Afghan Soviet Resistance (November 9, 2003)
...ls of candy to Iraqi children along a road in Falluja, inside the volatile Sunni triangle. " 'Don't touch it, don't touch it!' Iraqi children squealed. 'It... - Iraqi Protesters Oust US-Appointed Governor (December 12, 2003)
...Over the past two weeks, other Shiite leaders and even several influential Sunni Muslims — a rival minority that had long ruled Iraq — have urged the Gover... - Mideast Invasions Face Unexpected Perils (March 19, 2003)
...more to greatness!" But Britain retained the Ottomans' long reliance on Sunni Muslims as the governing class in Iraq, an arrangement that exacerbated co... - No Kharabba at the End of the Tunnel (July 19, 2003)
...ween four and eight attacks every week on US patrols and positions. In the Sunni belt, there have been attacks against Iraqi engineers — deemed to be "coll... - Counterinsurgency Tactics in Iraq (January 11, 2004)
...now the third in command of a tank battalion in the heart of the so-called Sunni Triangle, which extends north and west of Baghdad. The counterinsurgency e... - Iraq: The Doubters Grow (August 15, 2002)
...d government and prevent the breakup of the country into unstable Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite mini-states? So far, the Bush Administration has not provid... - Church in Pakistan Is Attacked, Killing Five and Wounding 40 (March 17, 2002)
...hile this nation has been riven by sectarian violence, it has been between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Attacks on Christians, who make up less than 5 percent... - Weaker al Qaeda Shifts to Smaller-Scale Attacks (October 15, 2002)
...ence officials in Karachi said they had evidence that Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim group responsible for the killing of dozens of Shiite Muslims in re... - How America Created a Terrorist Haven (August 20, 2003)
...loyalists was perhaps more plausible when the violence was centered in the Sunni heartland. But the recent riots in the southern Shiite city of Basra, and... - GI Casualties in Iraq Rising, Raise Worries of US (May 28, 2003)
... not. We are shooting them with our own guns." An insular, conservative Sunni Muslim city of 200,000 known as home to a smuggling trade taking sheep and... - US Ships al Qaeda Suspects to Arab States (July 26, 2002)
...al motive for cooperating in the fight against Al Qaeda. It views domestic Sunni Islamic militants as a potential threat to the ruling secular regime, whic... - Another Day In The Bloody Death Of Iraq (September 21, 2003)
...uslim country and the Americans want to create divisions among us, between Sunni and Shia. But no civil war will occur here in Iraq. These people are dying... - Top General Sees Extended War (March 28, 2003)
...0 to 16,000 troops drawn mostly from the Tikriti or Dulaimi tribes who are Sunni Muslims considered deeply loyal to Hussein. The paramilitary forces, wh... - US Recruiting Hussein's Spies (August 24, 2003)
... for guerrillas, who are thought to number in the thousands, mainly in the Sunni Muslim-dominated regions that provided Hussein much of his support. Th... - Allies Preparing for Long Fight as Taliban Dig In (October 28, 2001)
...n routes into Iran, a Shiite Muslim- ruled country firmly at odds with the Sunni Muslim Taliban. In the last week, as Washington casts around for ways t... - Interview with Chirac (September 22, 2003)
...ce wants to go too quickly. This will lead to chaos. There are Shiites and Sunnis and Kurds and a country that has been under a dictator for 30 years and th... - Regime Change (January 27, 2003)
.... Iraq is none of those things. There are three major factions - Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites - with no tradition of democratic rule. "On the basis of past... - The Rogues of Academe (December 1, 2002)
...utally checked the centrifugal forces (Druze, Christians, Alawite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Kurds, Armenians, Palestinians) that would otherwise tear apart "... - Schwarzkopf Skeptical About Action in Iraq (January 28, 2003)
... victory. "What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. It really should be p... - Transition PM Allawi Shot Prisoners in Cold Blood: Witnesses (July 17, 2004)
...ates that he was one of the two said to come from Samarra, which is in the Sunni Triangle. The three names were provided to the Interior Ministry, where... - What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
...Sunnis, former Baath Party leaders and Saddam loyalists had been joined by Sunni tribal chiefs. I heard that there were now thirty separate militias in... - Biography of Muqtada al-Sadr (June 1, 2004)
...s is especially for the Shiites. Then how is it possible to impose it upon Sunnis or others? In the Islamic government we believe that the votes of people i... - From Heroes to Targets? (July 18, 2003)
... rape is also increasing. Lack of security, which is most acute in the Sunni triangle around Baghdad, hinders efforts to repair Iraq's infrastructure.... - 'No Third Way' for US Iraqis (December 26, 2002)
... cultures and religions were lassoed into one nation — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and a Christian minority — creating a nationality that was never... - Attacks Force Retreat From Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq (December 27, 2003)
...e these militias. They should be dissolving them." Yawar and his fellow Sunni Muslims, a minority that had long ruled Iraq, are concerned that Shiites,... - The Moral Case Against the Iraq War (May 31, 2004)
...at least half a dozen other cities portend a nationwide insurgency by both Sunnis and Shiites against the US presence. Yet the latest polls—including one co... - Iraqi Press Summary (19-27 Dec. 2004) (December 27, 2004)
... the election and do not represent their strategic goals. For example, the Sunni and Shiite religious parties aim at establishing an Islamic state; however... - The War After the War (March 19, 2003)
...operating at will and conducting guerrilla attacks throughout the country. Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish tribal leaders are ruling respective areas and are in... - How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
...sh imperialists in the 1920s out of three distinct and rival factions, the Sunnis, Shiites and the Kurds. But during the cold war, America competed with the... - 40 Years of Iraqi History and News Coverage Considered (October 23, 2002)
...te Muslim Arabs, a middle section including Baghdad and composed mainly of Sunni Muslim Arabs, and a mountainous northern area populated by the non-Arab Mu... - The Empire Backfires (March 29, 2004)
...d; the institutions of democracy would be flourishing; Kurd and Shiite and Sunni would be working happily together in a federal system; the economy, now pr... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
...ince of Baghdad, in the center of the country, is the stronghold of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority. Sunnis dominated administrative positions in the Ottoman... - The Gray Zone (May 24, 2004)
...s sympathetic to the insurgency.” In many cases, the paymasters were Sunnis who had been members of the Baath Party. The analyst said that the insurge... - To Invade or Not to Invade? (November 18, 2002)
...of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shite regime, a Sunni regime, or a Kurdish regime, or one that tilts towards the Bathists, or on... - The Peace Movement Plans for the Future (July 24, 2003)
...Ministry, generalize (inaccurately) from visits to wealthier, middle-class Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad that the political and human rights situation had... - The Permanent Scars of Iraq (February 15, 2004)
...sman from Kansas who had been hit by an improvised explosive device in the Sunni Triangle, an Army sergeant from California who had had his leg fractured i...
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