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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 12, 2006 01:29am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Magazine - US News and World Report |
| News Date | Sunday, December 10, 2006 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Why Iraq's Shiite militias are so brutally effective. What can be done to stop them?
By Anna Mulrine
Posted Sunday, December 10, 2006
BAGHDAD-When U.S. Army Maj. Mark Brady drives through a once well-heeled section of western Baghdad, he is often greeted by flocks of doves, released in advance of his patrol's arrival. Symbols of peace and welcome? Not here, not now. What they are is a warning signal by militia lookouts that U.S. and Iraqi government forces are in the area.
The doves are the least of Brady's worries. As an adviser to the 5th Brigade of the 6th Iraqi Army Division, he is most concerned about the brigade's own soldiers, who use their cellphones to tip off allies in the militia. It's information that's particularly helpful to members of the Mahdi Army, followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who have set up checkpoints and
lately stepped up attacks on Sunni enclaves, reprisals for the recent bombings that killed more than 200 in the the capital's Sadr City neighborhood. So now, for operational security, brigade commanders collect soldiers' cellphones before presenting the day's plans. "The cellphones," Brady says, "were killing us." |
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