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India sets up team to probe Jaipur blasts
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has set up a special investigative team to probe Tuesday's bomb explosions in the city of Jaipur in which 64 people were killed. -
Sadr fighters lay down their weapons
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- Forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr laid down their weapons Thursday as reports emerged from Iraq of relative calm in the Baghdad district of Sadr City. -
U.S. claims Iranian weapons are in Iraq
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said emerging evidence suggests Iran is backing the so-called special groups targeting coalition and Iraqi forces.
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Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country. -
Features: More graves found
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
ZAHAMM, Iraq, May 13 (UPI) -- The number of human remains unearthed in an al-Qaida killing field northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province is nearing 70 with the discovery of more graves by villagers who had volunteered to search an abandoned pomegranate orchard. -
Analysis: USAF's cyber offense capability
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Procurement documents from the U.S. Air Force give a rare glimpse into the Pentagon's plans for developing an offensive cyberwar capacity that can infiltrate, steal data from and if necessary take down enemy information technology networks.
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The Baghdad-based Al Mada newspaper carried an editorial Tuesday with the headline: "The U.S. occupation and dealing with sectarianism."
"Every logical study of the state of Iraq's future and its political system is conditional upon the occupation and its effects on the 'national and social competition' that would help build the state and develop its democratic system," it said.
The paper listed the "social base" that has the goal of ensuring the Iraqi leadership fails: social classes that supported the dictatorship; the sectarian and tribal tendencies of the middle class; a bureaucratic system loyal to tribal power; and security-intelligence systems that defend dictatorship.
"Ending the state of dictatorship and its bureaucratic institutions has created a security and social gap that the opposition can't fill because of an absence of a united national democratic agenda," it said.
The editorial said the absence of a national democratic program has created chaos leading to "the birth" of many social powers and random political movements though the United States has tried to help build "a new basis of authority" and tried to frame the political process away from the "complicated format" of the Iraqi society.
It said the result of the political process was that Iraqi political movements and powers focused on two goals: building the Iraqi state and challenging the occupiers by monopolizing power and re-establishing tyranny.
The paper also said the U.S. administration's policy of using military force helped to transfer the Iraqi disputes to the rest of the region, leading to spats.
"The U.S. turning Iraq into a main base to solve the international and regional disputes is the main reason of the tangled disputes between Iraq and the regional countries," it said.
The editorial said the U.S. forces' failure to achieve their strategic goals made them consider a new policy based on rebuilding a "sectarian balance."
The paper discussed the cases entangled with U.S. policy that affect the situation in Iraq.
"The U.S. administration tries to diminish Iran's nuclear power because it might affect U.S. strategic interests; it intends to build permanent military bases in Iraq and Lebanon for strategic goals that allow the U.S. to keep its domination on oil sources; it tries to take part in internal disputes as it supports the Lebanese social powers to lessen the opposition attempts trying to change the sectarian basis; in addition it tries to strike an internal balance among Iraq's social components to guarantee the call to divide Iraq," the paper said.
It said the fact the United States is arming tribesmen is against the power of electoral legitimacy and will affect negatively the building of an Iraqi state.
"The U.S. has succeeded in shredding the social powers that carried out the national democratic project by spreading this power to tribal and sectarian components, which will lead to the destruction of Iraq," it said.
UPI Correspondent
The Baghdad-based Al Mada newspaper carried an editorial Tuesday with the headline: "The U.S. occupation and dealing with sectarianism."
"Every logical study of the state of Iraq's future and its political system is conditional upon the occupation and its effects on the 'national and social competition' that would help build the state and develop its democratic system," it said.
The paper listed the "social base" that has the goal of ensuring the Iraqi leadership fails: social classes that supported the dictatorship; the sectarian and tribal tendencies of the middle class; a bureaucratic system loyal to tribal power; and security-intelligence systems that defend dictatorship.
"Ending the state of dictatorship and its bureaucratic institutions has created a security and social gap that the opposition can't fill because of an absence of a united national democratic agenda," it said.
The editorial said the absence of a national democratic program has created chaos leading to "the birth" of many social powers and random political movements though the United States has tried to help build "a new basis of authority" and tried to frame the political process away from the "complicated format" of the Iraqi society.
It said the result of the political process was that Iraqi political movements and powers focused on two goals: building the Iraqi state and challenging the occupiers by monopolizing power and re-establishing tyranny.
The paper also said the U.S. administration's policy of using military force helped to transfer the Iraqi disputes to the rest of the region, leading to spats.
"The U.S. turning Iraq into a main base to solve the international and regional disputes is the main reason of the tangled disputes between Iraq and the regional countries," it said.
The editorial said the U.S. forces' failure to achieve their strategic goals made them consider a new policy based on rebuilding a "sectarian balance."
The paper discussed the cases entangled with U.S. policy that affect the situation in Iraq.
"The U.S. administration tries to diminish Iran's nuclear power because it might affect U.S. strategic interests; it intends to build permanent military bases in Iraq and Lebanon for strategic goals that allow the U.S. to keep its domination on oil sources; it tries to take part in internal disputes as it supports the Lebanese social powers to lessen the opposition attempts trying to change the sectarian basis; in addition it tries to strike an internal balance among Iraq's social components to guarantee the call to divide Iraq," the paper said.
It said the fact the United States is arming tribesmen is against the power of electoral legitimacy and will affect negatively the building of an Iraqi state.
"The U.S. has succeeded in shredding the social powers that carried out the national democratic project by spreading this power to tribal and sectarian components, which will lead to the destruction of Iraq," it said.
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