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The Dark Road Ahead; Testing time: The United States cannot afford to fail in Iraq. But its enemies seem to be multiplying.

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Byline: Rod Nordland, Melinda Liu and Scott Johnson, With John Barry, Daniel Klaidman, Tamara Lipper and Mark Hosenball in Washington and Gameela Ismail in Cairo

The video sells for less than $1 at any market in Baghdad. On the soundtrack of the amateurishly edited disk, a raw, wailing male voice sings to a Sufi melody often heard at Iraqi funerals, with new words grafted to the old tune: "We salute the brave people of Fallujah, who dared to stand up to the Americans... Our country has fallen into the hands of the Americans, and we need brave men to slaughter the occupiers." The paean--about a showdown between Iraqi protesters and U.S. soldiers during the early ...

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