Petraeus: US is not arming former insurgents

[sabra]

Paraphrase from hearing:

Petraeus stated that 100's of AQ#2's have been killed/captures. 1000's AQ rank and file killed/captured. Petraeus was then asked if more terrorists are being created than killed. Petraeus responded by saying that the US is not arming former insurgents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?ex=1339214400&en=7c69d70a25a4828e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies

BAGHDAD, June 10 — With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1759775


An Iraqi Sunni "volunteer", former insur
An Iraqi Sunni 'volunteer', former insurgents who have joined forces with US and Iraqi troops against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, holds a knife to the neck of an Iraqi man detained by his fighters for links to Al-Qaeda and threatens to cut his throat, in the Hawra Haajab village on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, 06 September 2007. The former insurgent fighters supported by US troops succeeded in pushing Al-Qaeda fighters out of the village for the first time in nearly three years following a day long battle that saw more than 30 suspected Al-Qaeda operatives detained and at least four fighters killed, US military sources said. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)








An Iraqi youth weeps in fear after being
An Iraqi youth weeps in fear after being detained by Sunni 'volunteer', former insurgents who have joined forces with US and Iraqi troops against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and held by US soldiers from the 1-40 Cavalry Squadron for suspected links to Al-Qaeda, in the Hawra Haajab village on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, 06 September 2007. The former insurgent fighters supported by US troops succeeded in pushing Al-Qaeda fighters out of the village for the first time in nearly three years following a day long battle that saw more than 30 suspected Al-Qaeda operatives detained and at least four fighters killed, US military sources said. AFP PHOTO/DAVID FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)

[Mythsaje]

1. Well, unless they get their hands on some of the stolen (lost)

munitions.


Okay, whatever.

[Lucinda]

3. Oh darlin...no one is actually using all that "missing" ordinance

I'm sure they are just piling it into nice neat stacks and waiting for a chance to return it ;)

[Mythsaje]

4. Of course...

Using it would be crazy!

[GliderGuider]

2. And Richard M. Nixon

is not a crook.


Yeah. Right.

[Karmageddon]

5. Of course not. The US is arming CURRENT insurgents. Former insurgents are dead or in prison.

[PATRICK]

6. Excellent

and this could actually be going around in his head so he can appear to believe what he is saying. You may be closer to the actual mark of his thought than you think. For us, irony, for them a typical shiftiness that helps them lie.

[Karenina]

7. "Insurgents," indeed

The U.S. is arming fucking EVERYONE!!! USA! USA! USA!

[hang a left]

8. Not former insurgents silly....

Only recently contracted insurgents. Everyone must re-apply. DUH! Get with the program.

[Bucky]

9. I'm not sure how he's spinning this into a fact...

...but I can smell the bullshit.

[sabra]

10. he just said it again...

[lonestarnot]

11. Ammo dumps left unattended. 10 finger discounts.

[Javaman]

12. no kidding. it's victor bout. ever wonder what happened to that pallet of 1 billion dollars?

nothing goes poof or drops from the sky.

that's all I'm saying.