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	Sunni Triangle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The triangle's three corners are usually said to lie in or around Baghdad (on the east side of the triangle), Ramadi (on the west side) and Tikrit (on the north side); the area also contains the cities of Samarra and Fallujah.
		It was widely predicted that Saddam would seek shelter from Sunni supporters and on December 13, 2003, he was captured in a raid on the village of ad-Dawr some 15km south of Tikrit.
		The "Sunni Triangle" should not be confused with the so-called "Triangle of Death," an area south of Baghdad inhabited by both Sunni and Shia Muslims which was the focus of major combat activity in November and December 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sunni_Triangle (246 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - The reshaping of Sunni politics in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sunni hegemony in the nascent Iraqi state was enshrined in the establishment of the monarchy.
		The association of Sunni Arabs with the state is therefore grounded in history and tradition, and their subsequent perceived disempowerment undoubtedly contributed significantly to the emergence of a well-armed and capable insurgency against occupying forces.
		But whether the Sunni representatives were heavily involved in the drafting of the constitution or not, the real danger is the perception in the Sunni Arab street that the future of Iraq is one where the Sunnis will not even be equal partners in the state.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/56F9DA69-4253-4CC9-8F49-DB7EC687E74B.htm (1387 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Roots of violence in 'Sunni triangle'
		The Kurds in the north and the Shia in the south were subject to systematic persecution - ethnic, in the case of the largely Sunni Kurds, and religious in the latter case.
		Sunni Arabs, who were privileged under the old regime, were left without leadership or any alternative reference point.
		In an attempting to contain the triangle and offer it a legitimate channel of representation, some Sunni Arabs from the opposition in exile and a few low-level members of the old regime have been included into the Governing Council.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=7320 (1281 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Give the Sunnis a break and a stake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus, as the coalition mercilessly pursues the insurgents, it must reassure the residents of the triangle that it is not pursuing an anti-Sunni Arab vendetta; and that although the Sunni Arab minority no longer enjoys a monopoly on power, those who embrace change have a crucial role to play in the new Iraq.
		At present, only one of the five Sunni Arabs on the 25-member Iraqi governing council is from the triangle (and he only recently returned from exile), and it is not clear whether any of the newly appointed interim cabinet members hail from the region.
		While it may not be possible to win “hearts and minds” in the Sunni triangle, it may be possible to demonstrate that the coalition and residents of the region have a shared interest in cooperating.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0309/03090615DS.asp (727 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Sunni Triangle, Loss of Privilege Breeds Bitterness
		It is the area of tribes and clans that were closest to him and that could expect power and privileges from his government.
		Hundreds of thousands of men from this area, now known as the Sunni Triangle, joined Hussein's extensive security apparatus, including the army and multiple police and intelligence agencies.
		Sunnis who served the deposed government often demonstrate their frustrations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11404-2004Jan12?language=printer (1238 words)

	Asia Times -
		The mood in the heart of the Sunni triangle all the way to Ramadi is replicated in the very poor, working-class neighborhood called Fourth Police, almost in the outskirts of Baghdad.
		The anger in the Sunni triangle is pervasive.
		Sunnis are angry because for the Americans the Kurdish region is the priority.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EI30Ak01.html (1222 words)

	CBC News:Sunni Triangle dangerous ground for U.S. soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BAGHDAD - Saddam loyalists may not be the only people behind recent attacks on U.S. soldiers patrolling the Sunni Triangle, an area of Sunni communities lying north of Baghdad.
		Political observers believe that the local Sunni population is dissatisfied with U.S. reconstruction efforts and is mounting its own hit-and-run attacks against American forces.
		On Wednesday in Fallujah, a city in the Sunni Triangle, a 14-year-old boy was killed and six people were wounded when U.S. soldiers opened fire on a wedding party.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/09/19/sunni_triangle030919 (335 words)

	INSIDE THE SUNNI TRIANGLE / ON THE FRONTLINES: Core of resistance
		Al Fahdawi's hometown of Fallujah and the surrounding villages and towns in the lush Euphrates valley west of Baghdad are the center of resistance to the U.S. occupation.
		The area is part of the so-called Sunni Triangle, a volatile tribal heartland dominated by Iraq's Sunni minority, and home to between 15 and 20 percent of the country's population.
		Sunni tribal and religious leaders deny that their opposition to the U.S. occupation is prompted by fear of losing their Hussein-era political privilege.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/05/MN86744.DTL (1415 words)

	Where the Sunni Triangle Really Is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After all, we have been repeatedly told that Wahabbism is a distinctly Sunni philosophy; it must therefore stand to reason that these Sunnis in this triangle are the violent Wahabbi mindset Muslims, bent on death, murder, and an evil that we cannot even begin to imagine.
		The neoconservative ploy to vilify Sunni Muslims is an attempt to use the decades of mistrust and religious division between the Shia and Sunni populations to their own advantage.
		In addition, it is noteworthy (not by the administration, however) that the Kurds have been living in complete autonomy for the last 12 years, and have relied on the Anglo-American presence to sustain their new-found freedom.
	www.proislam.com /column_sunni_triangle.htm (838 words)

	Cracking the Sunni Triangle - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The reason why the Sunnis are still fighting the Coalition lies in the perception of their fate in the new Iraq.
		Sunni Iraqis are only about 20 percent of the population, yet they have been running Iraq for centuries, and they feel they are entitled by birthright to continue.
		Paybacks are hell, and the Sunnis realize the Kurds and Shi'ites are sharpening the knives in anticipation of settling age-old scored with their former overlords.
	washingtontimes.com /op-ed/20030810-103914-4670r.htm (722 words)

	Baghdad Dweller » Stop using “Sunni triangle”
		I am from a Sunni parents no one in my family collaborated with the Bathists ever, no one liked Saddam and no one supported Saddam, it is another way around my father been jailed because he was communist and my mother been fired because she was a communist and they are both Sunni.
		People ask me all the time “are you Sunni or Shia?”; which means “are you a terrorist or a victim” and I am sick of it, telling people I am from Iraq makes them scared, tell them I am from Sunni family and watch the shock in their faces.
		It’s called the ‘Sunni Triangle’ because the area is shaped like a triangle, and the vast majority of its inhabitants are Sunni Muslim Arabs, and many of them supported Saddam Hussein –; many of them were part of his regime.
	www.roadstoiraq.com /?p=48 (2370 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Guerrilla war in Iraq spreading
		The Sunni Triangle is home to most of the country's Sunni Muslims, members of Hussein's ethnic group.
		Since May, when major combat operations were declared over, a total of 2,227 guerrilla attacks took place in the Sunni Triangle, according to figures as of the end of last week.
		The attacks outside the triangle have included the use of small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, and improvised explosive devices, military officials said.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/29/guerrilla_war_in_iraq_spreading (714 words)

	From the Sunni Triangle to the Bermuda Triangle - Opinion Forum - Global Policy Forum
		From the Sunni Triangle to the Bermuda Triangle
		“Sunni triangle” is now commonly used as shorthand for the geographic center of the growing resistance in Iraq.
		It is a double-standard that is treated as a taboo in the mainstream U.S. media, which only deepens the distrust that the rest of the world feels toward Washington.
	www.globalpolicy.org /opinion/2003/1115triangle.htm (861 words)

	frontline: beyond baghdad: the iraqis and the americans: the sunni triangle - tribes & insurgents \| PBS
		The area of central Iraq known as the Sunni Triangle, to the west and north of Baghdad, has been the focal point of violent resistance to the U.S.-led occupation.
		A Sunni Arab, he is a leader of the Bu Essa tribe in Falluja, the epicenter of the resistance.
		It's in a specific area of the former region known as the Sunni Triangle.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/beyond/iraqis/sunni.html (2766 words)

	Iraq's Forbidding 'Triangle of Death' (washingtonpost.com)
		The land immediately south of Baghdad, shared uneasily between a Sunni minority and the Shiite majority, is among the most treacherous, a swath of territory where residents say insurgents have imposed draconian Islamic law, offered bounties for the killings of police, National Guardsmen, Shiite pilgrims and foreigners, and carried out summary executions in the street.
		Police don civilian clothes when they pass through the flat landscape of date palms and eucalyptus trees, intersected by canals fed from the Euphrates River and crossed by roads leading to the sacred cities of Najaf and Karbala.
		At the top of the triangle is Mahmudiyah, a town of low-slung, ocher-colored buildings.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A5710-2004Nov22.html (739 words)

	Breaking Up To Stay Together? - If Iraq is to survive, the Sunnis must get their share of the oil revenue. By Fred ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To a large extent, this is what the insurgency in the Sunni triangle is about: the Sunnis' sense of impending powerlessness and impoverishment.
		This is not to say that the Sunnis now deserve special treatment, but they do need some benefits if Iraq is to avoid spiraling deeper into chaos.
		If the major Sunni parties boycott the coming election, the new government would have no legitimacy in the least stable part of the country.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109620 (1051 words)

	Outside The Beltway : Al Qaeda in Sunni Triangle
		It's long been suspected that Al Qaeda terrorists have been working with Sunni Arabs (20 percent of the population and for several centuries the chief persecutors of the Shia and Kurd majority) to regain control of Iraq.
		Al-Zarqawi complains that the Sunni Arabs are not interested in becoming suicide bombers, and the 25 suicide attacks al Qaeda has conducted so far have not been sufficient to get a Shia-Sunni civil war going, or driving coalition forces from the country.
		Sunnis have often decried their loss of political power since the fall of Saddam's government.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/5004 (888 words)

	Insurgents strike in Sunni Triangle, killing 5 U.S. troops
		By ROBERT H. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi insurgents struck Saturday in the volatile Sunni Triangle west of Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers in separate bombings and narrowly missing an American convoy with a blast that killed four Iraqis and wounded about 40 others north of the capital.
		Earlier Saturday, two other U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their four-vehicle convoy north of Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim city near Khaldiyah in a center of anti-U.S. resistance.
		Resistance to the U.S. occupation has persisted in the Sunni heartland north and west of Baghdad, despite the Dec. 13 capture of Hussein.
	www.freep.com /news/latestnews/pm18095_20040124.htm (983 words)

	Shiite Vote Plan Would Exclude ’Sunni Triangle’
		The minority Sunnis oppose the Shiites' election plan, with Adnan Pachachi, right, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and a Sunni, arguing: "Maybe this is their dream.
		The partial election plan calls for representatives in the predominantly Sunni areas to be chosen in tightly guarded caucuses, an idea vehemently opposed by members of the country's Sunni minority, who say it is illegitimate and would further divide Iraq's people.
		Sunnis represent about 20 percent of Iraq's population, but they were a ruling minority for much of its modern history until Saddam Hussein was unseated.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/02/18/international/middleeast/18IRAQ.html?ex=1392440400&en=e106bccf4cf7b2fd&ei=5007 (839 words)

	The Fourth Rail: The Battle of the Sunni Triangle
		The Battle of the Sunni Triangle began, in all places, outside of the Sunni Triangle in Shiite holy city of Najaf on August 16.
		The Sunni Triangle was bypassed during Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Fourth Infantry Division was unable to deploy in Turkey and fight their way south.
		It appears a populous portion of the Sunni Triangle, the area between Baghdad, Sammara and Babuqauh, is either pacified, occupied by American or Iraqi troops, or being run successfully by the local governments.
	www.billroggio.com /archives/2004/10/the_battle_of_t.php (6624 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: The "Sunni Triangle's" rough edges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seething towns such as Buhriz dot Iraq's vast "Sunni Triangle." They are home to traditional tribal populations embittered by the U.S.-led forces in their country — and suspicious of an Iraqi government installed by foreigners.
		The conservative Salafi, Wahhabi and Sufi teachings that have proliferated in Sunni Iraq since the fall of the regime last year provide an inspiration for the armed opposition.
		In hard-core Sunni enclaves such as Buhriz — riverside towns of palm groves, mud huts, concrete-block houses and the ubiquitous minarets of mosques — there often appears to be absolutely no meeting of the minds between the Americans and the Iraqis.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001978958_minifallujahs14.html (1484 words)

	The Fourth Rail: Into the Sunni Triangle
		We are now witnessing the conquest of the Sunni Triangle, an event long overdue twenty months after the fall of Saddam’s regime.
		The Sunni Triangle region of Iraq was supposed to be the operational area of the 4
		Political solutions to the problems in the Sunni Triangle were sought by the Iraqi Governing council and the Interim government, but these attempts have failed.
	billroggio.com /archives/2004/11/into_the_sunni_1.php (7380 words)

	USATODAY.com - A 'Sunni Triangle' police chief killed in roadside ambush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) — The police chief in the dangerous "Sunni Triangle" town of al-Khaldiya was killed in a roadside ambush as he was returning to his home in Fallujah, scene of rising criminal violence and guerrilla resistance to the American occupation of Iraq.
		He took over the al-Khaldiya force as U.S. troops pulled out of the town in conjunction with a general pullback from the region's population centers and the flanking cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
		The area is in the heart of the "Sunni Triangle," a broad swath of Iraq north and west of Baghdad where American forces have come under almost daily attacks since they fell to the coalition in April.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-09-15-iraq-police_x.htm (848 words)

	Rebels kill five Americans, four Iraqis in Sunni triangle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi insurgents struck Saturday in the volatile Sunni Triangle west of Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers in separate bombings and narrowly missing an American convoy with a blast that killed four Iraqis and wounded about 40 others north of the capital.
		Earlier Saturday, two other U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their four-vehicle convoy north of Fallujah, a Sunni Muslim city near Khaldiyah in a center of anti-American resistance.
		Resistance to the American occupation has persisted in the Sunni heartland north and west of Baghdad, despite the Dec. 13 capture of Saddam Hussein.
	www.casperstartribune.net /articles/2004/01/25/news/world/285ea9151bb8b8d687256e250083c29a.txt (841 words)

	ParaPundit: US Losing Control Of Iraqi Sunni Triangle Cities
		John F. Burns and Erik Eckholm have written an excellent article on the failure of US strategy for controlling the Sunni triangle cities.
		Shiite fundamentalists battle for control in southern Shia cities while Sunni fundamentalists increase their control in the Sunni triangle.
		They have managed to maintain fairly continuous control over Fallujah and also are bolstered by a continuing influx of Sunni Jihadists (some of whom are notably reported to be Al Qaeda fighters) from the other Arab countries that are majority Sunni.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/002319.html (883 words)

	USATODAY.com - For U.S., deadlier than ever in the 'Sunni Triangle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The officials say the escalation is a result of more aggressive American tactics in the Sunni heartland where former leader Saddam Hussein drew strong support.
		The number of attacks had increased to nearly 20 a day before coalition forces launched their latest pursuit of Saddam supporters concentrated in the "Sunni Triangle" north and west of Baghdad.
		In Fallujah, one of the most volatile towns in the Sunni Triangle, witnesses said four Americans were carried away on stretchers after a roadside bomb exploded beside a three-vehicle convoy.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-10-22-iraq-news-usat_x.htm (660 words)

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