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GusBob

(7,286 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 04:43 PM Jun 2014

On his radio show today Thom Hartmann was hoping someone on DU would post a story

A link to a story from the NYTIMES. I believe it was about "unholy alliances" in Iraq IIRC. He thought it to be a made for DU" type of story.
I could swear he has an account here. He quotes this place quite a bit. I don't have the capability to access the NYTIMES and set up an account and/or post the link....
Maybe someone could help the brother out? He was hot on this story and perhaps some good PR for DU or DU ERS on tomorrows program?

Thanks

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On his radio show today Thom Hartmann was hoping someone on DU would post a story (Original Post) GusBob Jun 2014 OP
Kick.... daleanime Jun 2014 #1
Uneasy Alliance Gives Insurgents an Edge in Iraq alsame Jun 2014 #2
YES.THANKS GusBob Jun 2014 #4
I'm wondering how many disaffected Baathists from Bremer's breakup of Iraq's Army Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author GusBob Jun 2014 #3
He post videos often here. Lochloosa Jun 2014 #6

alsame

(7,784 posts)
2. Uneasy Alliance Gives Insurgents an Edge in Iraq
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:01 PM
Jun 2014

Maybe it was this?


Uneasy Alliance Gives Insurgents an Edge in Iraq

By TIM ARANGOJUNE 18, 2014


ERBIL, Iraq — Meeting with the American ambassador some years ago in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki detailed what he believed was the latest threat of a coup orchestrated by former officers of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.

“Don’t waste your time on this coup by the Baathists,” the ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, chided him, dismissing his conspiracy theories as fantasy.

Now, though, with Iraq facing its gravest crisis in years, as Sunni insurgents have swept through northern and central Iraq, Mr. Maliki’s claims about Baathist plots have been at least partly vindicated. While fighters for the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, once an offshoot of Al Qaeda, have taken on the most prominent role in the new insurgency, they have done so in alliance with a deeply rooted network of former loyalists to Saddam Hussein.

The involvement of the Baathists helps explain why just a few thousand Islamic State in Iraq and Syria fighters, many of them fresh off the battlefields of Syria, have been able to capture so much territory so quickly. It sheds light on the complexity of the forces aligned against Baghdad in the conflict — not just the foreign-influenced group known as ISIS, but many homegrown groups, too. And with the Baathists’ deep social and cultural ties to many areas now under insurgent control, it stands as a warning of how hard it might be for the government to regain territory and restore order.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/world/middleeast/former-loyalists-of-saddam-hussein-crucial-in-helping-isis.html?emc=edit_th_20140619&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=51183932

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
5. I'm wondering how many disaffected Baathists from Bremer's breakup of Iraq's Army
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:14 PM
Jun 2014

have now joined the Naqshbandia group?

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