| We are training and equipping an Iraqi military that we someday may have to fight. |
| In late summer, members of the Abu Mahal tribe, many of whom had sought refuge in Akashat, a desert town 75 miles southwest of Husayba, approached the American military. In a program approved by Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top American commander in Iraq, the Americans provided weapons and training to the men, some of whom, Colonel Davis said, had been trying to kill American marines only months before. The informants' main role in the operation would be to move with the troops and identify insurgents.
Source: U.S. Forces Rely on Local Informants in Ferreting Rebels in West Iraq" By KIRK SEMPLE - NY Times - 12/10/05 |
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