If Gen. David Petraeus can't stabilize Iraq by autumn — or if Americans decide to pull out of Iraq before he has a chance — expect far worse chaos eventually. We will see ethnic cleansing, mass murder of Iraqi reformers, Kurdistan threatened, emerging Turkish-, Iranian- and Wahhabi-controlled rump states, and al Qaeda emboldened as U.S. military prestige is ruined.
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The United States and India said yesterday they worked out differences that had impeded a plan to share civilian nuclear fuel and technology. They hailed a "historic milestone" in an accord that would reverse three decades of American anti-proliferation policy.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 persons at a hotel yesterday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police not far from the capital's Red Mosque, reopened for the first time since a bloody army raid ousted pro-Taliban militants holed up there.
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BAGHDAD — A fierce gunbattle broke out after a joint U.S.-Iraqi force arrested a rogue Shi'ite militia leader in Karbala yesterday, leading to an air strike and the deaths of 17 militants, the military said.
TEL AVIV — Mohammad Dahlan, a former Gaza security chief with close ties to the U.S., resigned as Palestinian national security adviser yesterday after he was blamed for allowing Hamas' seizure of the coastal strip.
