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To: Chas. who wrote (3654)	1/31/2004 1:17:53 PM
From: Chas.	Respond to of 3959

lorne, hawk, ruffff here is some of the good stuff our forces are doing in preperation for the new Iraq...... The December 3 Washington Post reported that the Bush administration has sanctioned the recruitment of a special 700- to 1,000-strong “counterterrorism battalion” from the ranks of the militias maintained by pro-US political parties in the puppet Iraqi Governing Council. The decision raises questions about the methods the US intends to employ against the growing resistance to its illegal occupation of Iraq. According to the Post, the militias of five political parties—the Iraqi National Congress, the Iraqi National Accord, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)—will each provide 120 to 200 recruits. The command of the unit will rest with the Governing Council’s Interior Ministry—not the new Iraqi police or military. According to one party spokesman, the establishment of the unit was “a done deal”. The battalion will reportedly be given only one month of training before being deployed. Its initial function, according to a New York Times report, will be the “gathering of intelligence on guerilla activities and possibly conducting house raids”. The Post outlined its role as “apprehending Hussein loyalists and other insurgents” in and around Baghdad, with its missions requiring the approval of the US military command. Each company of the unit will work with a US Special Forces “A-Team”—normally a 12-man unit of Green Berets with specialised training in covert operations. Within a short period, however, the Iraqi unit will be given the authority to conduct its own “full-fledged counterinsurgency operations”.