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2005-02-16 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Zpaz 2005-02-16 1:00:49 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a headache for the new govt to deal with.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-02-16 1:38:20 PM|| 2005-02-16 1:38:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's just like the tribal generals in Afghanistan. The government appeases them so that they will not attack the government. But then you cannot go into those places without permission of the local general.

Posted by DAJ 2005-02-16 1:42:31 PM|| 2005-02-16 1:42:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Start paying and equipping them from the military budget, and offer training with the regular army. Try to slowly move them under the command of the local or national government rather than the individuals.

Fer crissake, don't just try to ban them -- they'll just go underground and be a bigger headache. Co-opt them and turn them into something like a national guard or militia.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-16 1:46:29 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-16 1:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 15,000 is perhaps 10% of the force the Kurdish Pesh Merga could field. Otherwise its not stated but the implication is that many and perhaps most of these groups are Sunni Arab. So perhaps the headline should be Sunnis work to Defeat Terrorists, but then thats not on the MSM agenda.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-16 3:55:07 PM|| 2005-02-16 3:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing wrong with a well-armed militia. If one wants a republic.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-02-16 3:55:19 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-02-16 3:55:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 excellent point, Kalle! Headache or no, they will no doubt be effective in curbing the foreign insurgents. Maybe later they can "promote" them with nice titles and pay raises into the regular army.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-16 3:59:23 PM|| 2005-02-16 3:59:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Kentucky Colonels, you mean?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-16 7:11:41 PM|| 2005-02-16 7:11:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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