How It's Used

“Also Monday, three masked gunmen assassinated the police chief of the Sunni Triangle town Khaldiya, his driver said. Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, 48, was shot at least 25 times.”

—AP Report, “U.S. Soldier, ‘Sunni Triangle’ Police Chief Killed in Iraq,” USA Today, September 15, 2003.

“The announcement of the founding of a new Iraq Stabilization Group under Rice is both instructive and misleading.  It is an acknowledgment that Bush realizes he has a huge problem with the way things are being reported and with the way things are going in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle.”

—Jim Hoagland, “The Real Fight,” The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, October 20-26, 2003, p. 5.

“As the sun went down in Abu Saida, General Sanchez set off for a walk. The town lies on the eastern edge of the Sunni Triangle, which runs north and west of Baghdad and is the center for 90 percent of all attacks on American troops. But unlike most settlements nearby, Abu Saida has a large Shiite Muslim majority. Captain Overland, briefing General Sanchez, said most of the insurgents who had attacked American forces in the town were Sunni Muslim groups infiltrating from the south.”

—John Burns, “Challenge for Bootstrap General is Winning Over the Wary Iraqis,” The New York Times, January 11, 2004.

Links

Related on eAlmanac
The Green Zone in Baghdad

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Sunni Triangle