Signing Up Sunnis With 'Insurgent' on Their Résumés

Source: Washington Post

Naiem al-Qaisi was imprisoned for four months, beaten, shocked with electric probes and, he said, forced to witness fellow Sunni male prisoners being raped by Shiite soldiers of the Iraqi army.

Now he wants to be a policeman. The American military recruited Qaisi and thousands like him to fight the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, but Qaisi's most feared enemies are soldiers in the Iraqi army's Muthanna Brigade, and his allegiance does not lie with the government he is now being trained to serve.

"We don't trust this government. This government belongs to Iran," said the 29-year-old former security guard for a soft-drink company. "The Iraqi government knows we are innocent guys, but they want to kill us."

In the villages around the Abu Ghraib district on the western outskirts of Baghdad, American commanders have achieved their goal of enlisting more than 1,000 of these local Sunni recruits into the Iraqi security forces. For the past few months, the recruits have operated checkpoints, pointed out al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters and located caches of weapons.

On Aug. 20, several hundred of the Sunnis -- given the name "Volunteers" by the Americans -- lingered in a parking lot guarded by U.S. tanks, waiting for Chinook helicopters to fly them to eastern Baghdad for their month-long training course to become policemen. One of their leaders, a bearded, beige-robed fighter who goes by the nickname Abu Zaqaria, looked out over the crowd of young men, some with machine guns, and estimated that 50 percent of them used to be insurgents who battled the Americans.



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I think they are pulling the wool over dumb American eyes. Just a matter of time till they go after the Shiites and the Americans if they get in the way. We idiotically are arming both sides in this civil war.

The shiites are sitting on the 2 largest known oil reserves the sunnis do not consider the shiites a legitimate Islamic sect. The CIA and AL Qaida have a long documented relationship with Osama bin laden and he is the Saudi royal family's golden boy. Plug this formula U.S. and sunni choreographed efforts to remove the shiites off the Iraq and Iran oil fields. Starting from when the supreme court picked George W. Bush and it all make perfect sense. That is why the bush administration never attempted to stop the sunni attacks on 9/11.

and always has. The White House would be stormed by citizens bearing ax handles, pitchforks, lynch ropes and torches if the truth were ever accepted.

"We don't trust this government. This government belongs to Iran," said the 29-year-old former security guard for a soft-drink company. "The Iraqi government knows we are innocent guys, but they want to kill us."

Let me guess....Coca Cola. Nah, they can't be that desperate. :rofl: