Sunday, April 22, 2007
Still the Wild Wild West - Even in Iraq
Fallujah was rough place even in Saddam's era. It was the site of some of the most bitter fights in 2004- April and November. Plus ca change, plus a la meme chose.
His assassination came a month after he agreed to take the job -- the only person willing to do so -- with promises to improve services and work with the Americans to ease traffic-clogging checkpoints in the city of 150,000 to 200,000. The 65-year-old Sunni sheik was the fourth City Council chairman to be killed in about 14 months as insurgents target fellow Sunnis who are willing to cooperate with the United States and its Iraqi partners. Abdul-Amir's predecessor, Abbas Ali Hussein, was shot dead Feb. 2.W
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