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2009-02-05 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 But but but ... Tikrit is a Sunni town. The Sunni couldn't possible cooperate with Iran.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-02-05 07:37|| 2009-02-05 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Weapons are fungible, Glenmore. Even assuming that Sunni militias don't cooperate with Iran (a position I don't take, FWIW), Sunni and Shia militias certainly do from time to time. I wouldn't be surprised if Iranian-made EFPs show up in Turkey any day now, used by terrorists in that perennial Turkish-Kurdish COIN clusterfuck.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-05 10:30|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Took the snark right out of my mouth, Glenmore.

And this is no small matter. The bizarre, delusional, obsessive belief that Shi'a and Sunni outfits and regimes don't/won't cooperate against us and other enemies is central to the fantasy world in which so many nominal adults exist, incl. in the intel and foreign policy communities.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-02-05 12:11|| 2009-02-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

Posted by Shineting Protector of the Platypi9343 2009-02-05 15:00|| 2009-02-05 15:00|| Front Page Top

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