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To: tejek who wrote (282876)	4/3/2006 6:17:09 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1575608

Ted, good article, thanks. re: Just before the operation against the mosque complex, which the U.S. military referred to as a "terrorist base", U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad hinted broadly that the United States would soon target the Shiite militias for the brunt of its operations. "The militias haven't been focused on decisively yet," he declared, adding that militias were now killing more Iraqis than the insurgents. Khalilzad further pinpointed the Mahdi Army and its ties to Iran as the primary and most immediate U.S. concern. I posted here a couple of times about that attack and trying to connect the dots. A turning point, I think. Remember they found stuff to make IED's, pretty much proving that they, the Shiite militias, were killing US soldiers under cover of the "insurgents" (read Bathists or Sunni's or whatever). And these were the guys we thought were our friends a couple of months ago... things are going really badly in Iraq, and the US public may have a sense of what's happening but we don't have a clue of the details. Just as Bush wants it. The moving parts continue to move, and the US military tries to play catch-up. John