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3 AQI operations arrested in Samarra.
Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq); 9/12/2009; 457 words; ...network during a raid in southern Samarra city on Saturday, a local police source said. "The Iraqi police and the Samarra Isnad (Support) Council forces, acting on intelligence tip-offs, conducted a search raid in the area of al-Rakka, southern...

Kurds in Iraq: the struggle between Baghdad and Erbil.
Middle East Policy; 3/22/2009; 7464 words; ...status of the Kurdistan Army (the peshmerga) is matched by the KRG's refusal to accept the legitimization of militias (the isnad) proposed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; and an immense swath of territory is claimed by both the KRG and the...

Preparations For Jan. 31 & The Ba'th Factor.
APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula; 1/12/2009; 2133 words; ...Maleki is building up his own power base for the Jan. 31 elections, having established the isnad movement. (Isnad in Arabic means support). Isnad councils (ICs) were formed of armed Shi'ite and Sunni Arab tribal forces initially to back...

Iraq's Provincial Elections & Moves Into Secularism.
APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East; 1/5/2009; 1575 words; ...Nuri al-Maliki is building up his own power base for this election, having established the isnad movement. (Isnad in Arabic means support). Isnad councils (ICs) were formed of armed Shi'ite and Sunni Arab tribal forces initially to back...

Towards a new Prophetology: Maulwi 'Abdullah Cakralawi's Ahl al-Qur'an Movement
The Muslim World; 1/1/2009; 9092 words; ...scrutiny of the contents of hadith (matn) instead of simply accepting them on the basis of their sound chains of transmission (isnad). But he - like other scholars with a revisionist approach towards established Islamic law and tradition in the later half...