APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from June 2005

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from June 2005

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shiite World - Part 8 - The Perspective & Conclusions.
June 13, 2005... The future of Iraq and the fate of its Shiite community will depend on what will happen by end-2005, when a permanent constitution should have been approved and a new parliament and government would have been elected. If these objectives are...

IRAQ - Talabani & Hakim Back Kurdish & Shiite Militias.(Jalal Talabani)(Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim)
June 13, 2005... President Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd, on June 8 openly praised Shiite and Kurdish militias in a statement which could further antagonise Sunni Arabs. Talabani's backing of Badr Brigade, the militia arm of the country's largest Shiite...

IRAQ - US General On The Insurgency.(Joseph Taluto)
June 13, 2005... Gulf News on June 9 quoted US Maj. Gen. Joseph Taluto as saying he could understand why some people would take up arms against the US because "they're offended by our presence". He said: "If a good, honest person feels having all these Humvees...

IRAQ - Haifa St Cleaned Up.
June 13, 2005... US-backed Iraqi National Guard and security forces have managed to secure the most lethal of Baghdad's notorious districts, Haifa Street which they have turned from a stronghold for the Sunni/Salafi insurgency into a peaceful area. On its...

IRAQ - Govt Admits Targeting Sunnis In Crackdown.
June 13, 2005... The government acknowledged on June 5 that its forces may have targeted innocent Sunni Arabs in a drive to crush the insurgency in south-western Baghdad and its suburbs. At the same time, however, authorities in the northern city of Mosul...

IRAQ - Hunt For Zarqawi.
June 13, 2005... Getting hold of Zarqawi is a priority. Some US officers call him "Z". By any name, US forces in Iraq have found in Zarqawi a mesmerising target. If they could capture this Jordanian/Palestinian-born militant, anointed by Osama Bin Laden as...