Re: [Marxism] US giving up on Iraqi troops, say US forces must defeat rebels, hold provinces

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS NO LONGER DRIVING FORCE IN U.S. POLICY

But there still seems to be some use for the Iraqi allies of the U.S.:

NY Times, April 22, 2007
After Iraqi Troops Do Dirty Work, 3 Detainees Talk
By ALISSA J. RUBIN

BAGHDAD, April 21 ? Out here in what the soldiers 
call Baghdad?s wild west, sometimes the choices are all bad.

In one of the new joint American-Iraqi security 
stations in the capital this month, in the 
volatile Ghazaliya neighborhood, Capt. Darren 
Fowler was heaping praise on his Iraqi 
counterparts for helping capture three insurgent 
suspects who had provided information he believed would save American lives.

?The detainee gave us names from the highest to 
the lowest,? Captain Fowler told the Iraqi 
soldiers. ?He showed us their safe houses, where 
they store weapons and I.E.D.?s and where they 
keep kidnap victims, how they get weapons, where 
weapons come from, how they place I.E.D.?s, 
attack us and go away. Because you detained this 
guy this is the first intelligence linking 
everything together. Good job. Very good job.?

The Iraqi officers beamed. What the Americans did 
not know and what the Iraqis had not told them 
was that before handing over the detainees to the 
Americans, the Iraqi soldiers had beaten one of 
them in front of the other two, the Iraqis said. 
The stripes on the detainee?s back, which 
appeared to be the product of a whipping with 
electrical cables, were later shown briefly to a 
photographer, who was not allowed to take a picture.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/world/middleeast/22detain.html 


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