Special forces members under Iraq's Interior Ministry are assigned to Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef, Anbar's police commander, who survived a suicide bombing. Joao Silva for The New York TimesAttacks Threaten Fragile Security Gains in Cradle of Iraq Insurgency -- New York Times
RAMADI, Iraq — Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef caught a fleeting glimpse of the man who wanted him dead.
As his armored sport utility vehicle pulled past the battered yellow taxi, General Youssef, the commander of the police in Anbar Province, recalled thinking that the driver looked like so many men in this impoverished territory — another poor peasant trying to eke out a living.
Then the taxi driver crashed his car into the general’s, detonating his explosives.
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