SUNNI TRIBES REJOINING AL-QAEDA
"Members of United States-allied Awakening Councils have quit or been dismissed from their positions in significant numbers... many of whom have gained extensive knowledge about the American military — appear to have rejoined Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. ... (and) many of the Awakening fighters still on the Iraqi government payroll, possibly thousands of them, covertly aid the insurgency... (due to) the group’s marginalization by the government and its abandonment by the American military.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/middleeast/17awakening.html?_r=1
Saturday, October 09, 2010
THE LEGACY OF FALLUJAH
"Antietam, Okinawa and Mutla Ridge earned their infamy because they were areas of brutal fighting and unprecedented carnage.
When historians assess the Iraq war from the far side of time, the city that will fall into the latter category will be Fallujah. The name itself became a symbol... making the place a byword for war as the most brutal of blood sports... There has been too much violence... too many dead for Fallujis to ever trust the Americans... there is no chance Fallujis could bestow forgiveness for the blood and destruction wrought by American hands..."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2024180,00.html
"Antietam, Okinawa and Mutla Ridge earned their infamy because they were areas of brutal fighting and unprecedented carnage.
When historians assess the Iraq war from the far side of time, the city that will fall into the latter category will be Fallujah. The name itself became a symbol... making the place a byword for war as the most brutal of blood sports... There has been too much violence... too many dead for Fallujis to ever trust the Americans... there is no chance Fallujis could bestow forgiveness for the blood and destruction wrought by American hands..."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2024180,00.html
