Basra Reviving, but It's Harder Than Expected
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Money and machines alone do not create modern, smoothly functioning urban systems, as the experience of Basra shows.
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Fleeing Iraqis arrive in Jordan only to find that their old oppressors are thriving in Amman
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MINGAORA, Pakistan -- The rebel commander's radio station is off the air, and his house has been blown up. On the streets, army troops patrol, not insurgents. Ever so slowly, residents are starting to return.
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Black Watch troops spent their first day off the front line and thinking ahead to Christmas at home. The troops have returned to Basra after their controversial month-long mission to Camp Dogwood near the Sunni &quot;Triangle of Death&quot;.
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The nightmarish beginning to a controversial redeployment has rekindled criticism of Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s decision to shift the 850-strong Black Watch Regiment from the relative calm of Basra to Iraq&#39;s deadliest area.
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BLACK Watch troops returned to the relative safety of Basra yesterday after a controversial month-long mission in Iraqâs &quot;triangle of death&quot;, during which five of their comrades died.
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It is the Iraqi people who come best out of the end of the Najaf siege. This has been a triumph for the moderate majority who until yesterday felt themselves powerless to influence the wretched course of events in their own country.
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Iraqi lawmakers reconvened on Tuesday after a month-long summer recess, under mounting pressure to get legislation passed that Washington believes will help heal deep sectarian rifts in the country.
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Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain's airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered with volleys of artillery. Civilians were killed and wounded in the crossfire.
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Lebanese are being squeezed, no longer just by fear of bombs, but by the realities of checkpoints and roving patrols of soldiers.
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The military strategy is mostly working, but Iraq must salvage its deteriorating political situation for the effort to succeed
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Why the approach that seems to have worked in Anbar province may not pay off elsewhere
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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Projectile fired into Basra base leaves several more wounded.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Bristling with guards, the polling  station looks more like a fortress than a school, but Iraqis in  this Shi'ite Muslim city say the clampdown ahead of Sunday's  election day is reassuring.
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Najaf, after three weeks of fighting, has more or less settled down from a military standpoint. The sometimes-fierce combat has ended.
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As officials prepare to start letting residents return to Falluja, they must figure out how to win back the confidence of the people whose city they have destroyed.