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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
 Looks like loyalist paramilitaries are already in motion assassinating members of the Association of Muslim Clerics (the organization that has called for a Sunni boycott of the election).
3:09:07 PM 
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NYT. Some Iraqi politicians are calling for loyalist Shiite paramilitaries to restore order in the country given the collapse of much of the army/police. Last week, at a meeting of Iraq's major political parties in the Kurdish region, several prominent politicians suggested that the deterioration in security could be halted by deploying militiamen from groups like the Iraqi National Congress, led by the former exile Ahmad Chalabi, and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful Shiite party... "Parties and tribes can help to establish security for the elections, to make sure elections are conducted by the established date," said Abu Hassan al-Amiri, leader of the Badr Brigade, the Supreme Council's militia, which has thousands of members and was trained in Iran.
11:24:03 AM
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Chet Richards posts Barnett's critique of his review of The Pentagon's New Map. Like Chet, I think the economic systems analysis is excellent, however, the solutions aren't compelling. This doesn't mean that the map can't be fixed. It can be. The best way to do it is to base it on a better understanding of the threat (which I point out on Global Guerrillas is in transition to something much more powerful).
10:23:22 AM
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