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2007-03-22 Iraq

Sunni Jihad Groups Rise Up Against Al-Qaeda in Iraq

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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-22 08:10|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Red on red. I love it.

Posted by gromky 2007-03-22 09:00|| 2007-03-22 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 His men apprehended 80 armed fighters, some of them from Saudi Arabia and Syria, and placed them under arrest in Al-Ramadi prison."

Our friends from Saudi again!!!Becoming a common theme!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-03-22 09:04|| 2007-03-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it just me, or do a lot of the Sunnis seem to be changing sides (or at least trending that way) lately?

Posted by Mike 2007-03-22 09:57|| 2007-03-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Sunnis realized the other option was genocide or if they are lucky extreme poverty. I'm surprised it took them as long as it did.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-22 11:15|| 2007-03-22 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I also believe the Saudi's are exporting their whackos as they did during the war against Russia in Afghanistan. Sort of a gamble that the bulk will be killed and no longer be a threat to the Kingdom.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-22 11:16|| 2007-03-22 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Our single biggest mistake in this war was overestimating the intelligence of the Sunni Arabs. The second biggest was underestimating their viciousness. Live and learn.

Posted by ghostcat">ghostcat 2007-03-22 13:53|| 2007-03-22 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 SA has always regarded this outside wars as ways to thin out the current crop of crazies from the country. Of course, when the population of a country is as inbred as the one in Saudi Arabia, the number of crazies tends to be rather high.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-03-22 16:14|| 2007-03-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Well said, ghostcat. However, it's an open question whether we've learned. Sure, the engagement and leverage approach will eventually pay off with some, as they split and turn on the foreigners and the most lunatic locals. But a much faster and long-run more effective result would probably have flowed from injecting some war into our warfare.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-22 21:34|| 2007-03-22 21:34|| Front Page Top

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