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San Francisco Chronicle
May 16, 2008
Asia Times Online
May 14, 2008
"The
Americans along with their Saudi allies backed the creation of sectarian
sunni militias in
Lebanon, some of whom were even trained in
Jordan. ...
Middle East Times
May 14, 2008
Recent reporting by Refugees International revealed that both
Shiite and
sunni militias are gaining recruits by providing citizens with food, oil, gas, ...
Asia Times Online
May 14, 2008
... stayed out of the fighting); and its covert backing (with
Saudi Arabia and
Jordan) of
sunni militias, in some cases disguised as private security firms, ...
Christian Science Monitor
May 14, 2008
... encircled the area with a 12-foot wall and swept through, knocking down gates as they searched dusty compounds for members of
Shiite and
sunni militias. ...
Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2008
A Lebanese woman and her daughter walk past
Lebanese soldiers deploying in a tense neighborhood of
Beirut. Six days of fighting between supporters of the ...
IPS
May 12, 2008
"The
Americans along with their Saudi allies backed the creation of sectarian
sunni militias in
Lebanon, some of whom were even trained in
Jordan. ...
Salon
May 12, 2008
Some of them work on the neighborhood council, and some of them are members of a pro-government
sunni militia called Sons of
Iraq. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
May 12, 2008
In the northern city of Tripoli at least 17 were killed in heavy fighting between
Hizbollah and the
sunni militia loyal to Saad Hariri, the son of the late ...
آكي
May 12, 2008
Beirut, 12 May (AKI) - A Lebanese
Sunni group called the '
Islamic meeting point' on Monday announced it had formed to protect itself from attacks by ...
The Australian
May 11, 2008
Elsewhere in
Lebanon,
sunni militias continue to block the road just short of the main crossing from Lebanon to
Syria. As The Australian entered Lebanon ...
Slate
May 10, 2008
By Joshua Kucera The
Hezbollah takeover came after three days of sectarian fighting in
Beirut between
sunni militias and Hezollah and its
Shiite allies. ...
Boston Herald
May 10, 2008
For three days and nights
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen have waged war on
sunni militia, on the government and on anyone who dared stand in their way. ...
New York Times
May 10, 2008
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Baghdad -
Shiite leaders in Parliament and leaders of the movement of the Shiite cleric
Moktada al-Sadr agreed to the outlines of a truce ...
Truthdig
May 10, 2008
On the other side of the street,
sunni militias loyal to
al-Qaeda moved in. The two forces showered each other with submachine
gun fire, stray bullets often ...
DEBKA file
May 10, 2008
Our sources report
Iran's proxy
Shiite terrorists, commanding a 45000-strong
army, are bent on breaking up and disarming
Lebanon's
sunni militias, ...
Austin American-Statesman
May 10, 2008
"It was an insult for us to fight these people," he said of
sunni militia loyal to the government. "We fight great
armies." However, few observers expect ...
Swampland
May 9, 2008
The pro-government
sunni militias were bested and disarmed with what is being described as embarrassing ease. Most of the
army has remained neutral, ...
Ya Libnan
May 9, 2008
Ahdab said talk of a
sunni militia that planned to take over
Lebanon was an "illusion." Reading a statement issued by the pro-government alliance after its ...
Swampland
May 9, 2008
Hezbollah appears to have routed the
sunni militias and occupied most of the
Muslim part of
Beirut. The
Sunni party's TV station is off the air and its ...
Middle East Times
May 9, 2008
By HIBA DAWOOD (UPI Correspondent) The
Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any ...
ISN
May 9, 2008
To complicate matters worse for
the US,
sunni militias have also been active. A double suicide-
bombing near
Baghdad on 1 May killed 30 people and injured 65 ...
AlterNet
May 8, 2008
Another provision of the same bill would require
Iraq's government to pay the salaries and training costs of the predominantly
sunni militias, or so-called ...
Asia Times Online
May 8, 2008
Another provision of the same bill would require
Iraq's government to pay the salaries and training costs of the predominantly
sunni militias, or so-called ...
News & Observer
May 7, 2008
The security provided by the much-heralded local sunni militias is evidence of progress, but only a fool would ignore the likelihood that they have ...
Middle East Times
May 6, 2008
Despite the violent skirmishes between government forces and sunni militias, the Revolutionary Guards involved in these operations have not managed to ...
CASMII
May 6, 2008
If
militias are the main problem in
Iraq, then
the US policy of creating new
sunni militias and empowering them to rule walled off fiefdoms does not bode ...
Center for Research on Globalization
May 4, 2008
... stressed that the vast majority of atrocities...attributed to 'rogue'
Shiite or
sunni militias "were in fact the work of government-controlled commandos ...
Africasia
May 3, 2008
...
Syria and
Jordan had been relatively calm in the past year following a US policy of wooing elements of the
sunni militia to support coalition forces. ...
Asia Times Online
May 1, 2008
... allowed to keep their
militia - and often use it - to settle old scores with the Ba'athists, or new ones either with
al-Qaeda and rising
sunni militias. ...
Slate
May 1, 2008
EurasiaNet
May 1, 2008
... including the
Badr Organization, or the militantly anti-
Iran sunni militias that operate under the umbrella of the Awakening Councils. ...
Daily 49er
April 29, 2008
With the success that
the US-backed
sunni militias are having in driving
al-Qaeda out of their communities, there is practically no chance that al-Qaeda ...
Independent
April 29, 2008
That pits al-Qa'ida in
Iraq against the al-Sahwa
sunni militia, which is allied to the
Americans, and also sees
Sunni Insurgents fighting the Americans. ...
GulfNews
April 28, 2008
By Basil Adas, Correspondent
Baghdad: "The whole world may come to Baghdad but the Arabs won't" - a phrase repeated in Baghdad by simple
Iraqis and others ...
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