this is a reporter that has nothing to do with above statement
this is Benedict Arnold, one of the best leaders until the fall during the Revolutionary war
Posted on 07/10/2007 4:35:18 PM PDT by Flavius
Khalis, Iraq - As the US military continues to move through Diyala Province to uproot Al Qaeda fighters hidden amid its villages, an emerging foe may be helping to erode many of the successes the Americans are having in the three-week-old operation "Arrowhead Ripper."
According to Iraqi soldiers and US officers, militants linked to Al Qaeda are using tribal and family connections and, in some cases, also providing financial incentives to members of the Iraqi Army to help them remain strong and evade capture.
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this is a reporter that has nothing to do with above statement
this is Benedict Arnold, one of the best leaders until the fall during the Revolutionary war
Typically, the counterintelligence guys compile a dossier on suspected treacherous allies. Then, when the evidence is there, they turn the dossier over to SOCOM. They meet with the suspect, who fully discloses who and where his enemy contacts are located, then retires from public view. Then his contacts are likewise interviewed and retired.
In Vietnam, it was called The Phoenix Program.
>>US faced with Iraqi Army turncoats<<
I’m more concerned with American turncoats in Congress.
We need to launch a massive PR campaign INSIDE Iraq-
Tell them to START TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS THEMSELVES OR ELSE we will leave.
There’s nothing surprising in the fact that the terrorists will infiltrate the Iraqi army. General Petraeus wrote the book on this, and understands that this is a battle in which each side tries to turn the other.
We are also using our tribal connections to turn in terrorists, which is the opposite of what they are trying to do to us.
What’s annoying is that the Christian Science Monitor pretends that this is an unexpected glitch in the program.
There’s nothing surprising in the fact that the terrorists will infiltrate the Iraqi army. General Petraeus wrote the book on this, and understands that this is a battle in which each side tries to turn the other.
We are also using our tribal connections to turn in terrorists, which is the opposite of what they are trying to do to us.
What’s annoying is that the Christian Science Monitor pretends that this is an unexpected glitch in the program.
We are training and equipping the 350,000 man Iraqi Security Forces. We have no idea which of these Muslims we can trust and which we can’t. From friends of mine who have been over there they say that they could trust any individual Iraqi one day and lose that same person’s trust the next day.
A really tough stituation to be in to have to trust your very life to untrustworthy people.
It isn't a question of who trusts who. Its a question of who fears who the most. And that can change with the price.
“It isn’t a question of who trusts who. Its a question of who fears who the most. And that can change with the price.”
When you’re on patrol with an Iraqi soldier? Or when our guys are sleeping in an Iraqi precinct police station?
In an urban guerrila war, there’s not much to fear. Suicide bombers are willing to pay the price.
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