[TexKat]

Details emerge of gunmen, posing as soldiers, attacking U.S. troops in Iraq ping.

[Marine_Uncle]

One can only hope this is an isolated event that will not continue to happen as our forces attempt integrated missions with the Iraqi forces.
We mourn the losses of our men, but at the same time should remember small groups of American soldiers and Marines have for the past few years been operating in enclaves, a few of us amoung many of them with positive results.
A note I failed to make notice of on your ping regarding the Allawi interview. He seems not to understand what a civil war means. At least not in the context of historical civil wars. I continue to believe a lot is lost in translations, and how mideasterner's for instance ideas of some given thing would differ with westerner's thoughts.