U.S. Aircraft Targets Sons of Iraq Members

Source: Washington Post

An American military aircraft opened fire Thursday night on Sons of Iraq members who were allegedly spotted placing a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.
The incident, which killed one suspected member of the paramilitary group and wounded two, is the latest sign of the the fraying allegiance between the paramilitary groups and the U.S. military.
The U.S. military recently stopped paying the Sons of Iraq, many of whom are former insurgents who were put on the American payroll in 2007 in a high-stakes strategy to quell the insurgency.
Under heavy pressure from the U.S. military, the Shiite-led Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for the payments to the predominantly-Sunni armed groups and absorb some of them into its security forces.



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will go up in flames.

What then folks? Do we escalate like Afganistan?

When the money stops, so too the support.

You can't tell with our trigger happy military.