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US confirms it is arming Sunni insurgents, paper to report

US confirms it is arming Sunni insurgents, paper to report
Sunni insurgentsSunni insurgents

06/10/2007

John Byrne
The Raw Story

Monday's New York Times will lead with a story by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns revealing that the U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, RAW STORY has learned.

"With the four-month-old "surge" in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni groups with insurgent links that have promised to fight al-Qaida."


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