"Only three hours northwest of Baghdad, the city is said to exist outside of state control; Sharia-like rules have been introduced and grisly punishments are meted out in the main marketplace."
SPIEGEL ONLINE - August 23, 2005, 03:42 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,371076,00.html SPIEGEL Surfs the Web Iraq's Mini-Taliban City: Haditha While attention in Iraq is largely focused on the country's constitutional convention, the insurgency rages on, and security is as precarious as ever. Now, reports suggest that a town near Baghdad has been entirely taken over by Islamists. US-led forces are still struggling to provide security across Iraq AFP http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,508972,00.jpg A reporter for The Guardian newspaper has revealed that an entire city in central Iraq is being run by insurgents, much like a smaller version of Fallujah, a notorious thorn in the US military's side earlier during the occupation. According to the report, hard-handed tactics by Shia police led to a Sunni-led insurgency in the farming town of Haditha near the Euphrates river. Now the town of 90,000 is an insurgent citadel. Over the course of a year, insurgents have come to dominate the local political, administrative, and security landscape. Only three hours northwest of Baghdad, the city is said to exist outside of state control; Sharia-like rules have been introduced and grisly punishments are meted out in the main marketplace. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hkbdq00/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124858837/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
