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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:09 AM
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5. This Was More A Play To Make Malaki Relevant To Iraqis
His grip is slipping. If I read properly, Al Sadr withdrew his support for Malaki in the past week. Surely Malaki knows how unpopular those black helicopters and mercenaries are inside his country and this was a Hail Mary to retain any internal support he has.

Of course this move was toothless...there is no Iraqi government...but it may have bought Malaki a little more time and taken the focus off his ineptness and made the US the targets again.

An interesting take I heard was how Blackwater now has made themselves a liability. They first made "headlines" with the Fallujah bridge incident that kicked the insurgency into a higher gear and I see this latest incident being the cause celebre for future attacks on American interests in the country.

Yep, they may be more powerful that Malaki, but can the company stay low profile any longer?
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