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| StrategyPage Iraq: The Fire That Won't Go Out |
| 2006-07-20 |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Moose -- Just realized recently that Tater's Medhi army = the 12th Imam from Medhi, the AhMad/Tater connection. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-07-20 14:09 |
| #3 Not too far from the mark. CT ops do this kind of thing from time to time, especially in a sustained mode. Not that I know anything, just old experience and a lot of history. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-07-20 13:39 |
| #2 'Moose, I believe you may be on to something there. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-07-20 13:11 |
| #1 "The bombing attacks increasingly target radical Shia militias, mainly those loyal to Muqtada al Sadr." This raises an eyebrow. Terrorist types almost never go after other terrorist types. They go after soft targets. Who *does* go after terrorist types are anti-terrorists, such as "Phoenix program"-type operatives. Right now Sadr is an agent for Iran. He and his people are in their pocket, and working against Iraq. However, Sadr himself is an imbecile, an incompetent whose greatest skill is exposing his people, and exposing his Iranian backers, and getting them killed. The best kind of enemy to have. In turn, this leads me to suspect that much of the "sectarian" violence is actually anti-terrorist forces selectively hunting down and killing batches of disloyals and fifth columnists, or even active terrorist clans. Their only response is to do what typically terrorists do: try to attack soft targets. This keeps the cockroaches in the limelight and makes the government far less likely to want to "make a deal" with them. Which of course weak governments are always wanting to do. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-20 10:09 |