Allah and Ace have a Baghdad tennis match going on. Read the back and forth at links.
As you noodle around the various points - add this into your thoughts, though I'm not even close to vouching for the source.
On Thursday night The New Anatolian learnt that American soldiers had surrounded an Iranian passenger plane arriving at Erbil Airport from Tehran and held the passengers at gunpoint for three hours. They searched all passengers and harassed the airline crew. There were unconfirmed reports that the Americans may have apprehended some Iranians.
On Friday Iran hit back by closing its border into the Kurdish region.
And try to figure out what it means that two of the three Iraqi Brigades going to Baghdad are Sunni Kurds. They've been training pretty hard.
I felt good about that before the news of Maliki's choice for commander broke. If the bulk of the forces are Sunni and, as I have read, they plan to apply Sunni forces in Sunni areas, with Shi'ite in Shi'ite - bottom line is the Mahdi Army isn't going down anytime soon.
Either we've decided to just try and clean out Al Qaeda and give Iraq over the the Shi'ites, trying to keep a wedge between them and Iran ... or the surge is halfway to being a cluster ... before it started. I can't pretend to know what's going to eventuate on the ground. Read around and let me know if you figure it out.
Not having to fight the Mahdi is better than having to fight them. This is the window in which we should pour infrastructure improvements into Sadr City.
Mookie ain't gonna put in running water and power and he can hardly object to our doing it without raising doubts among his followers.
These clown are less likely to be a problem if we can get'em all with shovels in their hands fixing their rat hole.
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 11:29 PM
If the Sunni Kurds are the ones I'm thinking of, I know a US soldier who was one of their trainers. They are hand picked and fight just like the US Marines. To quote my source which must remain anonymous, "they fight just like our Marines and they love their job." With emphasis on "they love their job."
I need to add a perspective concerning Maliki, his resistance to allowing the US forces to challenge al-Sadrs group and the recent appointing of whats-his-face (Lt.Gen.Qanbar)to the post of top military commander. Maliki is a Shi'ite, al-Sadr is a Shi'ite and so is Gen. Qanbar. If I were a gambling man, I would place my money on the Shi'ites to eventually, if not sooner, overrun the Sunnis one way or another, and I mean totally. It will be a power play and the Shi'ites will win both politically and militarily and the playing field will be the reverse of the earlier order where the Sunnis had all the power under Hussein. The big question here is where will the Coalition forces be and what will they be able to do when Maliki fully establishes his power base?
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