Reply #20: Rummy has talked about U.S. backed Iraqi special operations units

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Rummy described the Iraqi forces being trained and sponsored by U.S. during his Meet the Press interview on Feb 6 with Tim Russert as follows:

"We have 136,000 Iraqi security forces, excluding the 70,000- plus in the site protection, and they are in the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Defense, and there's a lot of different types. Some are policemen and they walk a beat. Some are border patrol and they sit on a border in a patrol place. Others are in commando units and they operate in a region and go in on special assignments. Still others are in the regular army, and they're being trained for that type of function. A small number of them, as Dick Myers said, something like 40,000, are highly mobile, can move anywhere in the country and be sustained." (Quote from Donald Rumsfeld)

Wouldn't surprise me that some of these units are engaged in very questionable clandestine activities.