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...Some 20% of these anti-al-Qaeda groups - many of whom had been insurgents paid by the U.S to switch sides - will be incorporated into the Iraqi security forces. The rest will be given civilian jobs or training in a bid to help reintegrate them into the general population. But it won't be that simple: after years of vicious sectarian violence, many Sunni Arab patrol members fear retribution from the government; and indeed, some government officials consider the SOIs as little more than thugs and murderers. And as is so often the case in Iraq, the U.S is being...
...ghayde, 33, commands one-third of the 923 Sunni fighters that patrol Dora, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad where al-Qaeda had banned barbershops and outlawed alcohol. He had 422 men, but about 50 fled, fearing arrest by the government. The district, which is hemmed in by high concrete T-walls, was a byword for terror before locals like the sheikh joined with U.S. forces to rout the extremists...
...They don't want to give up their guns to a government they suspect views them with hostility, at a time when they fear revenge from remnants of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. Across Iraq, many SOIs have been targeted, some killed by unknown assailants. Al-A'ghayde survived an assassination attempt in March, and his home was firebombed a few months before that. He and his men don't want civilian jobs that would not enable them to carry weapons...
...There's nothing inherently incorrect about that answer: Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by al-Qaeda, isn't in league with Osama bin Laden, and the vast majority of Pakistanis oppose terrorism. The trouble is that the same could be said of nearly every country in the world. But anyone who has picked up a newspaper in the past few months knows that Pakistan is now home to al-Qaeda's top leaders and serves as the staging ground for the dramatic increase in suicide bombings in Afghanistan - and that elements of its security services are indisputably aiding...
...Kissinger actually supports talking to Iran (which McCain also forgot during Friday's presidential debate). Although less YouTube-able, two other moments in the CBS interview stood out as even more troubling. The first was when Couric asked Palin whether she believes that "the Pakistani government is protecting al-Qaeda within its borders." This was Palin's response...