U.S. Army: Iraqi general arrested

[IndianaGreen]

U.S. Army: Iraqi general arrested
Sunday, September 26, 2004 Posted: 5:43 AM EDT (0943 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The man chosen to lead the Iraqi National Guard in a province in the so-called Sunni triangle has been arrested by U.S. forces on the suspicion that he has ties to insurgent fighters, a U.S. Army spokesman said.

Gen. Talib Abed Ghayib Najm was named to head the National Guard in the Diyala province just two weeks ago, and had not yet been confirmed by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the spokesman for the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division said told CNN.

Gen. Najm was in U.S. custody Sunday.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/26/iraq.main/index.html

[sushi]

1. I've read in a link I found here

(http://www.needlnose.com/node/view/369)

"If this is true, then the resistance is interwoven into the fabric of society and there is no way to truly eradicate them without getting into a Vietnam-style wholesale destruction scenario."

[leftchick]

7. well that is pretty apparent....

at least to anyone with a functioning brain. Which conveniently excludes about 30% of the voting block, aka: bushbots*.

[0007]

2. I thought Bigley was beheaded?

A delegation of Muslim clerics from Britain arrived in Iraq to make direct pleas to the kidnappers to free Kenneth Bigley, a 62-year-old British engineer kidnapped nine days ago."

Spy vs. Spy - games with de General?

[sushi]

3. Apparently not yet

or they would have announced it.

[FLSurfer]

4. First Chalabi.......

Now this General. Its good to know we can eventually ferret these guys out, but it confirms my belief we have no idea, the depths of the insurgency.
Time to come home.

[MacDo]

5. It runs deep

I'm curious to know who he was appointed by. We may be really over our heads.

[dArKeR]

6. "U.S. Troops March to White House arrest George W. Bush For Murder"

U.S. Troops Arrest Senior Iraqi Commander
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040926/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

[pinkpops]

8. we was at war, and we was okupiers, but now we have

handed over sovernty to the erakky people, see. Bu we kin still arrest people, even if they is in the erakky army, but we is not at war, excatly, we is just there to help the good erakkys, to protect them from the bad erakkys.
see?

[bluedeminredstate]

9. These poor troops - they're screwed.

Information about the troops can be easily obtained by the uniformed Iraqis and given to the resistance.
They aren't safe anywhere - even in the green zone where thousands of Iraqis do the day-to-day jobs that keep the mini-city running.

I read an article in Harper's a couple months ago where this reporter spent about a year with the resistance. It was fascinating and horrifying - one guy spends months plotting against and bombing US troops, and when he needs money to continue his activities he goes and works for the coalition for a couple months to get some quick cash. So essentially, the taxpayer is paying the insurrgents who then use the money to kill, maim and injure American soldiers!

Can anyone in the Bush Administration say Clusterfuck? I didn't think so.

:scared:

[jpgray]

10. Let me tell the US a secret

I saw this dynamic in an interview early in the occupation with one of Saddam's former officials that had been given a 'Coalition' job.

They know how to fool the leadership into trusting them. The line is always the same--I secretly hated Saddam, but I feared for my family. Now this guy, the guy who has my same abilities and experience? Saddam lover.

Then they proceed to game their superiors with the flower-throwing act while working to gain and consolidate political power or aid the insurgents. It's exactly what some here would do if we were in a similar situation. This administration is so inept when it comes to placing trust (Chalabi?) that I wouldn't be surprised if whole sections of this new 'national guard' turn around on them in a moment of crisis.