Gun Battle with Sunni Arabs in Downtown Baghdad
The Shiite government of Iraq arrests Adil Mashhadani, an Awakening Council or Sons of Iraq leader who had turned against the radical Salafi fundamentalists and took a salary from the US to fight them. Then a major gunfight breaks out between the government and armed Sunnis in the Fadil district of Baghdad.
The Nuri al-Maliki government does consider many of the "Sons of Iraq" to be criminals and terrorists and is declining to accept most of them into Iraq's security forces or army, out of fear of a coup.
Situation not stable.
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posted by Juan Cole @ 3/29/2009 01:03:00 AM
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This eventuality, the Shi'a central government turning on Sunni local leaders, is at the heart of why Generals Petraeus and Odierno say that we must keep 50,000 US military personnel in Iraq indefinitely.
Al-Maliki has just done the USA a great favor. This move will test the idea that keeping 1/3 of our military in Iraq will delay the Iraqis from sorting out how they will govern themselves.
We imposed a governing framework that we thought would best serve US interests.
Now Iraqis are exploring what framework will best serve their own interests.
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Does this mean we won in Iraq or does this mean we will be in Iraq for years mores as Obama evidently wishes?
According to the Iraqi channels ,many people from the sahawat have been targeted and killed , some are abducted from their home many iraqis believe the government is behind such abductions .
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