Guardian: "'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans'"

[frogcycle]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1989397,00.html

[JCMach1]

1. Saudis are backing Sunnis against the Shia

obviously one of the conditions for the money and aid is to focus on the Shia, not the Americans.

[acmavm]

2. Traitors in the military?? Supplying the 'enemy'??

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He told me that one of his main suppliers had been an interpreter working for the US army in Baghdad. "He had a deal with an American officer. We bought brand new AKs and ammunition from them." He claimed the American officer, whom he had never met but he believed was a captain serving at Baghdad airport, had even helped to divert a truckload of weapons as soon as it was driven over the border from Jordan.

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I thought it was us 'cut and runners' who were the bad guys.

[Robbien]

3. "he saw the Americans as the lesser of two evils"

He would rather fight Americans than Shia.

So would I. Shia milita is scary.