Crippling unemployment fuels insurgency in flashpoint city of Samarra

[maddezmom]

SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - Crippling unemployment is fueling Iraq (news - web sites)'s deadly insurgency in the flashpoint city of Samarra north of Baghdad, which remains under curfew after car bombs and attacks on police stations last week killed 36 and left scores wounded.


"Sometimes, if the insurgents come to ask a young man to make trouble in exchange for money, he'll do so because the situation is very hard," said an unemployed construction worker who gave his name as Omar, standing outside a shop on a nearly empty city centre street.


Shopkeeper Taher, who also only gave one name, said there is no work in Samarra, where Iraqi and US forces launched a massive operation in early October to regain control of the city from insurgents.


After a two-day fight, US-led forces withdrew under an agreement to turn security over to Iraqi authorities. But a frightened and undermanned police force has failed to bring Samarra completely into line, leaving the Sunni Muslim-dominated city with only a tenuous hold on security.

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[frylock]

1. kick..

rate it up.

[DividedWeAre]

2. they are so retarded

the only job that iraqis can get is something dependant upon the US. like a security position. good idea in practice for bushco's plan to own iraq since it would make the iraqis dependant upon the US. but, the iraqi insurgents know this so they do everything to keep it from happening. if bushco really cared about iraqis, they would help them be independant, instead. really, that's all they would have to do to win it. but they don't care so they won't do it and this will go on forever. stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

[sandnsea]

3. Trickle down economics

It doesn't work. Not here, not there. Pretty simple really.

[NNN0LHI]

4. The US is shipping $100 thousand dollar a year truck drivers to Iraq

And the US is paying these "illegal" American workers with proceeds that come from stealing the Iraqis oil. And these same Iraqis can't find a job? Why do they hate us?

Don

[maddezmom]

5. kick

for our freedom screams *