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.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?ref=todayspaper
Особою пикантность этой истории придает тот факт, что сама Аль-Кайда была создана Штатами для борьбы с советскими войсками в Афганистане.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/140607pers.htm