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Rogue Shiite militia fighters...

Are there any other kind?

1 posted on 08/05/2007 3:29:32 PM PDT by humint
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To: humint

Rogue? They fulfill the orders of their masters in Tehran and Qom.


2 posted on 08/05/2007 3:31:02 PM PDT by SolidWood (UN delenda est.)
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To: humint

Fortunately for the mullahs, they have a “Get out of aerial bombing and ground invasion” card.


3 posted on 08/05/2007 3:34:38 PM PDT by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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To: humint

My understanding is that most of the foreign terrorists in Iraq are Saudi that crossed the boarder from Syria and that Iran is providing them with training and equipment.


5 posted on 08/05/2007 3:38:18 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: humint

He did not provide a total number of militia attacks. But he said 73 percent of the attacks that wounded or killed U.S. troops last month in Baghdad were launched by Shiite militiamen, nearly double the figure six months earlier.
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Odierno said Iran has sharply increased its support for the fighters ahead of a September report to Congress on progress in Iraq, leading to the surge in rogue militia action.

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“We knew this was coming, but there’s been a shift,” Odierno told The Associated Press in an interview after touring a mainly Shiite area of southeastern Baghdad. “Because of the effect we’ve had on al-Qaida in Iraq and the success against them and the Sunni insurgency, it’s now shifted.”
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Despite progress against al-Qaida in Iraq, Odierno reiterated the U.S. concern that insurgents linked to the group would try to stage an attention-grabbing attack ahead of the September report.

“I think they want to try to influence that,” he said. “We have to stop them from trying to conduct some large attack here over the next 30-45 days.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080500936.html


9 posted on 08/05/2007 3:44:22 PM PDT by bnelson44 (http://www.appealforcourage.org)
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To: humint
Rogue Shiite Islamic militia fighters said to be armed and trained by Iran.

There, now it makes sense.

10 posted on 08/05/2007 3:45:54 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: humint

These are the fighters that should just “disappear” after they are done being interrogated. After all, the dems insist that it is a civil war being waged in Iraq, so who would miss iranians?


11 posted on 08/05/2007 3:50:38 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: humint

War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want.-William Tecumseh Sherman


12 posted on 08/05/2007 3:53:48 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: humint

A call to the Islamic people from their leader has been make to all muslims everywhere to seek out and kill the infidels where they find them - I suspect muslims from everywhere in the Mid Est are represented plus the Baathist regime.


14 posted on 08/05/2007 4:03:05 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (An American Patriot and an anti-Islam kind of fellow. (POI))
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To: humint

I wonder, are there more ATTACKS on our troops than there was a year ago or do the Shia attacks make up a higher percentage of the total because the Sunni attacks are down?


28 posted on 08/06/2007 5:48:24 AM PDT by Hail Spode
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