AFP: Iraqi PM delivers belated support for new US strategy

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070113/ts_afp/iraq_070113121044


Full article: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/13/ap3326618.html

the twisting.

....The Americans will operate alongside 30,000 Iraqi police and the promised arrival of 20,000 Iraqi soldiers, saddled with concerns they are too weak to fight alone and that the police are widely infiltrated by militiamen.

The ethnically mixed northern oil hub of Kirkuk, for which the constitution envisages a referendum on whether to join Kurdistan, was rocked by the shooting of two contractors and the bombing of a Shiite mosque under construction.

In the volatile sectarian city of Samarra, a Sunni prayer leader and member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Yunis Wuhaib, was assassinated outside his home in the southern Sikak neighbourhood, police Captain Hashim Ahmed said.

Overnight, gunmen killed an Iraqi reporter outside his home in Mosul, the fifth journalist to be killed in the city in two months and confirming Iraq's status as the world's most dangerous assignment.

A cornerstone of the new US strategy is upping pressure on Iraq's neighbours Iran and Syria -- which Washington accuses of fomenting unrest -- and tougher action to deal with militias that Maliki's government has not tackled head on.

Looks like Bush was caught in another lie.