Soldiers fear that they are 'sleeping with the enemy'

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Soldiers fear that they are 'sleeping with the enemy'
(Filed: 18/10/2004)

Adrian Blomfield discovers deep mistrust between American troops and Iraqi soldiers they are training

If the US marines and Iraqi national guardsmen living at the Karmah military barracks near Fallujah talk at all, they speak through the bars of a small window.

The Americans peer out from the ammunition room, filled with weapons confiscated from suspected insurgents, trading banter with the Iraqis who stand on tiptoes in a huddle outside, their eyes squinting against the glare of the late summer sun.

Troops in Iraq

Though there is laughter, things are not as they should be at Karmah barracks. "This is camp poison," whispers a marine. "Watch your back."

The sinister atmosphere at Karmah barracks is not difficult to understand. The marines are convinced that many, perhaps most, of the 140 members of the Iraqi National Guard (ING) they share the camp with are double agents working on behalf of the insurgents holding Fallujah.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/18/wirq218.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/18/ixnewstop.html

[saigon68]

1. GUESS WHAT BOYS---THEY DON'T WANT YOU THERE

They would be viewed as turn coats by the population,

Quislings and traitors.


The same as our "SOUTH VIETNAMESE ALLIES"

WHAT A JOKE.

[psychopomp]

2. That would mean that there are police and ING training camps

that are excepted from targeting for mortar and/or car bomb attack. If that is the case, that particular ING camp is one of the safest places to be in Iraq, sadly enough.

[Not Me]

3. See how silly the whole 'gays in the military' thing seems now??????

n/t

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=913019