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jannyk

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Thu Mar-22-07 03:45 AM
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Freed Sadr aide meets Iraq's PM

Source: BBC - Breaking

An Iraqi militia leader once branded a major security threat has appeared in public alongside Iraq's prime minister after being freed from US custody.
Ahmed Shibani is a senior aide to radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose political movement plays a key role in Iraq's power-sharing coalition.

Shibani met PM Nouri Maliki hours after Iraqi government officials said they were talking with insurgent groups.

The US-led coalition said Mr Shibani could help moderate extremism in Iraq.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6478501.stm

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vickitulsa

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:03 AM
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1. This is how we're "taking the handcuffs off" our troops so they can

get the "bad guys" in the militias this time, eh?

Yeah, riiiiight, we all knew THAT was gonna happen!

What a sick, tragic, psychotic JOKE this administration is....

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jannyk

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:06 AM
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2. How does that saying go...

the enemy of my enemy is my friend :shrug:

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maddezmom

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:10 AM
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3. seems to me, both are enemies of the US and friends to each other

so does that make them our friend? :shrug:

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jannyk

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:26 AM
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4. I think that's why we're still flailing around over there

we haven't yet worked out who our friends or enemies are. That's assuming any of them are friends of course :hide:

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maddezmom

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:36 AM
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5. the only friends we have over there

are the ones we're funding...but I'm not even sure who that is anymore.

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vickitulsa

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:48 AM
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6. I think if you have to pay people to be your friends, you can't count on them

remaining friends for long. Some may choose to throw in with us for a time, when their goals and ours seem to coincide. But at the rate things keep changing over there, I don't think we should presume to trust any group or faction to be firmly "with us."

For certain I know if I were any of them, I would not trust us at all.

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Supersedeas

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Thu Mar-22-07 04:15 PM
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7. which ever way the wind blows

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