Nir Rosen - Aftermath

Political participation See also Elections

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Prisoners

files kept on

treatment of

Prisons

in Afghanistan

in Lebanon

men detained in, on scant evidence

number of men who spent years in

during peak of the surge, number of Iraqis held in

in Saudi Arabia

secret

in Syria

See also specific prisons

Progressive Socialist Party

Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs)

Provincial Reserve (PR)

Provisional auxiliary police

Public Distribution Service

Qabbani, Mufti

Qanbar, Abud

Qaqa’a Mosque

Qartarneh, Yasar

Qasim, Abdul Karim

Qasim, Sheikh Naim

Qatar

al-Qeisi, Sheikh Dhafer

Qiba Mosque

al-Qiblawi, Abu Jaafar

Qutb, Sayyid

Racism

Radical Islam, spread of

Radio Sawa

Rafidein Brigade

Rahman, Omar Abdel

Rahman, Sheikh Muhamad Abdel

Ramadan, Mustafa (Abu Muhamad/Abu Shahid)

Ramadi

al-Ramah, Basil Muhamad

Ramah, Muhamad Qasim Sulaiman

al-Rantisi, Abdel Aziz

Rashas women’s prison

Rashid, Sheikh Khalid

Reconciliation efforts

Reconstruction

Red Cross, Lebanese

Reese, Timothy

Refugee camps. See specific camps

Refugees. See Exiles; Iraqi refugees; Palestinians and Palestinian refugees

Refugees International

Republican Guard

Republicans and Democrats

Resistance fighters. See specific resistance groups and leaders

Resistance, honorable, defined

Rice, Condoleeza

Ricks, Tom

Rifai, Osama

Riffi, Ashraf

Rite of passage for young jihadis

Rogers, Chris

Rohde, David

Rolling Stone

Rougier, Bernard

al-Rubaei, Muafaq

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia

Russian embasssy attack

Rwanda

Saadeh, Antoine

Sabean minorities

Sada Camp

Sadat, Anwar

Sadda dam

Saddam City See also Sadr City

Saddam City security prison

Saddam University

Sadr City

Sadr Current

Sadr, Imam Musa

al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir

al-Sadr, Muhammad Sadiq

al-Sadr, Muqtada See also Mahdi Army

Sadrein camp

Sadrists See also Mahdi Army; Sadr Current

al-Saedi, Sheikh Abdel Karim

Safavids

“Safawis” epithet

al-Saghir, Jalaluddin

as-Said, Nuri

Salafi chanting

Salafi Current

Salafi Mujahideen movement

Salafis

Salafism

Salahedin Camp

Salahuddin Brigades

Salam Mosque

al-Samarai, Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Ghafur

Samarra shrine attack

Sanctions, impact of

Sattar, Sheikh. See Abu Risha, Sheikh Sattar

Satterfield, David

Saudi Arabia

and Afghanistan

and Al Qaeda

aligning with Jordan

apprehension of

and Fatah al-Islam

ignoring involvement of

interference and money from, effect of

and Lebanon

and the March 14 coalition

regional rivalry between Iran and

sectarianism in

Saudi proxies

Sayyaf, Abdul Rasul

al-Sayyid, Ridwan

Schools

ban on attending

religious, in Pakistan

teaching jihad ideas in

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Secret prisons

Sectarian cleansing See also Iraqi civil war

Sectarianism

artificial, in Lebanon

and Basra

blaming Americans for

continued slaughter due to, aspects of the

degree of, diminished

descent into

dividing the militias, effect of

in the Education Ministry

in Egypt

elections that enshrined

frustration over, potential for continued

in the government

history of

and identity politics

of the Iraqi Security Forces

and Jordan

and Lebanon

as more covert

overt, receding of

perceptions based on

in the police force

provoking in the regional, possibility of

regional, rise in

rise in

and Saddam

sign of shift away from

during the surge

Syria and

in universities towards students

U.S. occupation promoting

See also specific geographical areas

Sects, religious. See specific sects

Secure Plus security company

Seidiya Guard

Selection bias

Sepp, Kalev

September 11 attacks

Sermons, impact of

Shaab

Shab-e-Barat holiday

Shah of Iran

al-Shahal, Sheikh Dai al-Islam

Shallaq, Fadil

Sham

See also Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Sham/Levant)

al-Shami, Abu Anas

Shanshal, Falah Hassan

Shaqis , recruitment of

Sharikat al-Sadr (Rays of Sadr) newspaper

al-Sharman, Muhamad Mahmud

Sharon, Ariel

Sharqiya television

Shatila refugee camp

Shawish, Zuheir

Shawkat, Asef

Shehab, Fouad

al-Sheikh, Fattah

“Shiite crescent,”

Shiite Hizballah-Iranian model

Shiite House

Shiite militias

accusations against

in Amriya

cease-fire of

depending on Al Qaeda for protection from

and ease of integration into the ISF

Hizballah training, media accusation of

linked to Iraqi Security Forces

other targets of

and the road to civil war

treatment of Palestinians

See also specific militia groups and leaders

Shiite mosques See also specific mosques

Shiite pilgrims

Shiite Political Council

Shiite revival

Shiite shrines See also specific shrines

“Shiite south” label

Shiites

actual representation of Sunnis and

American perception of

beliefs held by

common epithet involving

divided, and U.S. strategic interests

empowerment of

failed uprising against Saddam by

in the first outbreaks of civil war

as the first target of AQI

important holidays of

moderate, losing

and mosque attendance

new Saddam of the

periphery vs. center

preferred burial site for

reported missing on the Internet

Salafi view of

secular

as the winners

Zarqawi’s warning to

See also specific Shiite leaders/people and organizations

Shiite-Sunni conflict/violence. See Iraqi civil war; Sectarian cleansing; Sectarianism; Shiite militias; Sunni militias

“Shock and awe” doctrine

“Shock therapy” techniques

Shoter, Faris Sayid Hassan

Shrine of Ali

Shuhada Mosque

Shuqair, Wafiq

Shurufi Mosque

Shuwafa

Siniora, Fouad

al-Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Ali

Slocombe, Walter

Smugglers

Soccer, views of

Social engineering

Solagh, Bayan Jabr

Somalia

Sons of Iraq (SOI) See also Awakening program/groups

Soviets/Soviet Union. See Russia

Special Republican Guard

Stalin, Joseph

Status of Forces Agreement

Straw, Jack

Sudan

al-Sudani, Abdul Falah

Sufis

Suicide bombings

Suleiman, Michel

Suleiman, Muhamad Haidar

Sunna, the, Salafis view of

“Sunni Arab” label

Sunni Endowment

Sunni militias

believed to be lying dormant

building, in Lebanon

cease-fire of

escalation between Mahdi Army and

funding for, significant source of

new, creation of

other targets of

paid by the U.S. military

See also specific militia groups and leaders

Sunni mosques See also specific mosques

Sunni newspapers

Sunni revival

“Sunni Triangle” label