POI
n.— «The insurgency is mostly made up of Sunni Arabs, the 20 percent of Iraqis who held power under Saddam Hussein.…Some are POIs (“p-ed-off Iraqis”), in the vernacular of some U.S. officials: Sunnis seeking vengeance for relatives killed by U.S. forces, or those who fear they have no future in an Iraq dominated by Shiites or Kurds.» —“Iraqi leaders’ skills will dictate when U.S. exits” by Trudy Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer (Penn.) May 29, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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