Posted on 03/21/2016 6:08:44 AM PDT by McGruff
It was a tense confrontation between two forces supposed to be on the same side in Iraq.
First, heavily armed police, led by the interior minister, waded into a Shiite militia base south of Baghdad and arrested its deputy commander, accused of organizing attacks on Sunni mosques. They loaded the man, Ali Reda, into an armored SUV.
Then militia reinforcements descended, surrounded the police and demanded Reda be freed. Weapons were drawn. The minister, Mohammed al-Ghabban, the highest figure in Iraq's police force, frantically called Baghdad from inside his SUV.
In the end, al-Ghabban surrendered his prisoner and left empty-handed, angry and humiliated.
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These militias, many of them backed by Iran, mobilized in 2014 to fight Sunni extremists from the Islamic State group. However, they are now showing no intention of standing down after the battle, demanding instead to be a major force shaping Iraq. That prospect worries not only Iraq’s Sunni minority but also officials in the military and the Shiite-led government, who fear the militias will dominate Iraq the way the Revolutionary Guard does Iran and the guerrilla group Hezbollah does Lebanon.
The “Arab Spring” worked out so wonderfully!
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Add this to the equation.
Iranian-backed Shi’ite Iraqi militia demands withdrawal of US force deployed in Iraq - Reuters
Imagine Chicago with crew served weapons and armor.
Aw, what a shame. Guess they get to pay the price for "resistance" of the "occupation", and they deserve to. What Iraq needs is MORE ISIS.
We killed Saddam Hussien to turn Iraq over to Iran’s control.
No offense to the vets on here but why did we even bother with Iraq or the Arab world at all, it is a tribal hellhole. I’m sure Bush back then knew that they would go back to their old ways as soon as Saddam was gone, they need a hardline leader to keep them in check, sad but true.
Get their minds off their asinine neighbors.
This is where g-d should sort them out
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