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My take:

The Marines had secured 2/3 of Fallujah, all except the rabbit warren Golan section. This is where the foreign fighters and islamikazis are holed up.

US forces could go in door to door, but only with great casualties. Our troops can't tell one arab from another. We would end up shooting all the men, flattening the Golan, killing lots of women and kids (all live on world TV.)

This Iraqi general and his troops can tell an Iraqi local from a Syrian from a Saudi. This Iraqi general can do something we can't: segregate them out (with the help of Iraqi locals) and execute them all.

He's positioning himself for a top top position in post American turnover Iraq. To grab that brass ring, he needs to perform now.

I don't know what odds to put on this gambit succeeding, but it's very interesting poker. We're on a timetable to turnover, and the general wants to leverage the timetable into a new career. Let's wait and see.

Your analysis requires faith in a Muslim, former Republican Guard officer that I lack.

This General would need balls of brass and a wheel barrow to haul them in to kill Islamist Jihadists for the Infidels.

He would have to know, that would make him and his family a target for the lunatics..

Granted -- If a few well known and respected Iraqi Military leaders would step forward and kill to secure the country from the Islamists -- BIG things could happen..

I'm not sure I'm that confident yet...
The Iraqi military has never performed reliably....
I don't expect that to change anytime soon...

Semper Fi

This Iraqi general and his troops can tell an Iraqi local from a Syrian from a Saudi. This Iraqi general can do something we can't: segregate them out (with the help of Iraqi locals) and execute them all.

Assuming his platoon leaders don't get paid off to go in on patrol, and come out with more troops than they went in with (with the "excess" melting away into the countryside after they get thru our lines)

The Marines had secured 2/3 of Fallujah, all except the rabbit warren Golan section. This is where the foreign fighters and islamikazis are holed up. US forces could go in door to door, but only with great casualties. Our troops can't tell one arab from another. We would end up shooting all the men, flattening the Golan, killing lots of women and kids (all live on world TV.) This Iraqi general and his troops can tell an Iraqi local from a Syrian from a Saudi. This Iraqi general can do something we can't: segregate them out (with the help of Iraqi locals) and execute them all. He's positioning himself for a top top position in post American turnover Iraq. To grab that brass ring, he needs to perform now. I don't know what odds to put on this gambit succeeding, but it's very interesting poker. We're on a timetable to turnover, and the general wants to leverage the timetable into a new career. Let's wait and see.

I give the odds to be about 50/50. If the fatso-general does what he's supposed to do then it will be a major turning point in the WOT.

Other "local" operations from the Pakistan's NW territories to Saudi Arabia will be watching.