Dark Side Of The Iraqi Plan

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

Do not look now, but not everybody sees the Sunni tribes support as the breakthrough of the Admin.

The US strategy of a "bottom up" revolt of Iraqi Sunnis against al-Qaeda extremists is risky and already riddled with problems, say senior American officers and General David Petraeus's own top counterinsurgency adviser.

Fed up with al-Qaeda's campaign of murder and intimidation, Sunni tribal elders and insurgents who had been fighting alongside al-Qaeda and attacking American troops began last year to quit that fight and temporarily align themselves with US forces. The movement, which began in the western desert province of al-Anbar, has since spread to other predominantly Sunni provinces and some Sunni neighbourhoods in Baghdad, contributing to a significant decline in violence there.

Taken by surprise that an estimated 30,000 Sunnis are shifting from fighting Americans to co-operating with them, US officials nevertheless have seized on the change as the most positive development in the Iraq war, and say it will be a major element in the Petraeus report to Congress on Monday and Tuesday.

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Once again we were ahead of the "experts" again!

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

The Sunni are only cooperating in 1 province. Once AQ is eliminated there is nothing to suggest they won't turn on us next. The plan still has time to backfire in our face.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

The leaders of the tribes are playung a waiting game right now. Things will probably heat up after the report and Congress dose whatever it is it does.

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

That's one advantage they have over us, they have patience.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

The more I learn about the situation in Iraq, the more I have this feeling that they are quietly partioning the country. All the plans sedem to lead in that direction.