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superkia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 04:26 PM
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US bribe insurgents to fight Al-Qaeda

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2413200.ece

AMERICAN forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The tactic has boosted the efforts of American forces to restore some order to war-torn provinces around Baghdad in the run-up to a report by General David Petraeus, the US commander, to




He hasn't mentioned this yet, wonder why?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 04:41 PM
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1. Randi Rhodes said that the insurgents were just fed-up with Al Queda cutting off people's hands...
Edited on Mon Sep-10-07 04:42 PM by IanDB1
for smoking cigarettes.

I think it was Randi that said it.

Pretty sure.
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