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[Institute for War & Peace Reporting: ICC - Africa Update] Could Awakening Fighters Rejoin Insurgency?: “It would be unwise [for the government] to just admit [al-Sahwa fighters] into the police or military without going through the established procedures and due process,” said Abbas Majid, an Iraqi analyst and an expert on the al-Sahwa groups. “These rules and procedures must be observed to ensure the continued professionalisation of the security forces.”

[The Historical Marker Database - New Entries] 14th [Brooklyn] Infantry, N.Y.S.M. [84th. N.Y. Volunteers] Marker: The 84th New York (14th Militia) and the 6th Wisconsin of the Federal I Corps were dispatched to bolster Greene's defense of Culp's Hill. Arriving at about 8:30 p.m.

[Investor's Iraq Forum] US wins early round over Iraq - Investor's Iraq Forum: Apparently, Maliki only accepted the current draft after emphasizing full withdrawal by 2011 and making sure that US soldiers will not be immune to Iraqi law if they commit crimes on Iraqi territory. The full text of the agreement has not been published, but the general parameters include a 10-year mandate for the US to guarantee the security of Iraq, in exchange for the right to use Iraqi land, waters and skies to base and train troops and store military equipment.

[Casco Bay Observer] Casco Bay Observer: CBO_081120: The dismissals, which were confirmed by senior Iraqi and American government officials on Sunday and Monday, have come as estimates of official Iraqi corruption have soared. One Iraqi former chief investigator recently testified before Congress that $13 billion in reconstruction funds from the United States had been lost to fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government officials.

[Scoop NZ - Scoops] Scoop: <B>Background Note: Somalia</B>: 24 November 2008 - The top United Nations envoy to Iraq has strongly condemned the series of bombings that struck Baghdad today, killing and injuring innocent civilians on their way to work.

[New World Order Truth] Pentagon announces 2009 deployments to Iraq | New World Order Truth: on developments in Iraq, is that the Baghdad government will move too slowly to integrate the Sunnis into legitimate employment because it views them as Sunni militiamen, and that this will lead some to rejoin the insurgency.

[Danger Room] Could Iris Scans Stop a New Iraq Insurgency? | Danger Room from ...: 6 - if it would be Iraqis overthrowing Saddam, the people of Irak would not be so negatively biased against Americans. They would not see them as occupation forces.

[War in Context] War in Context - NEWS & VIEWS ROUNDUP & EDITORIAL: October 23: Iraqi army units, backed by U.S. forces, are launching pre-dawn raids and arresting dozens of suspected militiamen, despite a deal between Sadr and Iraq’s government. Residents, once fearful of the Mahdi Army militia, have become informants, and senior Sadrist leaders have been assassinated.

[World Politics Review: Blog] World Politics Review | Analysts, U.S. Officials Differ on ...: The Awakening movement began in earnest in 2006 in Iraq's Anbar province, when U.S. commanders took advantage of the alienation of Sunnis by the heavy-handed and violent tactics of members of Al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) and other radical elements of the anti-American insurgency. The alliance of the U.S. military with Sunni sheikhs who had formerly opposed the U.S. occupation saw tens of thousands of fighting-age Sunni males organized into groups of "Concerned Local Citizens." These militiamen, later renamed "Sons of Iraq" by the U.S. military, have acted at the local level to protect villages and neighborhoods against AQI infiltration.

[The Heritage Foundation Papers: Health Care] Getting the Big Ideas Right: The Strategic Concepts that Helped ...: We discovered that we were allowing in these compounds of 800 to 900 detain­ees the training of the terrorist class of 2007 and 2008, because there were Taqfiri in there, very hard-core extremists who would intimidate, recruit, motivate, and train right in those compounds. You have to envision a huge penned-in enclosure, and you have to conduct counterinsurgency operations inside the wire where you identify and isolate the irreconcilables, get them out of the general popula­tion, and then you provide training, education, job skills, and other opportunities for those in the rest of the population so that when they are reintegrated into society, now with a judicial pledge and a tribal support apparatus, the re-arrest rate goes down.

[Baghdad Bureau] Iraq Closeup: Looking Back at Three Iraqi Victories - Baghdad ...: Thankfully for the US and the Iraqi people, our President and the Republicans stood firm in the face of the onslaught by the Democrat defeatists and their media allies including this paper. There may have been mistakes made over the years ( and I would ask the critics to point to the war in which this was NOT the case) but the current administration has been proven correct in its assessment in 2006 and it’s change of tactics and willingness to see the battle through.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » There’s A Man With ...: As their tours end in Afghanistan and the Iraqi units return home the men who want to remain in the army can be integrated across the Iraqi army units in Iraq. Some of these men may not want to go but it is much better to offer them a choice that is in line with their skills than to leave them in the lurch with nothing but spare time, no employment little to look forward to but reprisals petty and otherwise from the Shia led government in Iraq.

[NO QUARTER] Four Days in Iraq: And this Means the Surge is Working? : NO QUARTER: Back in 2003 they dropped two one-ton bombs on a building in Mansur, an upscale district of Baghdad (where, coincidentally, a number of family members and friends live) because there was supposedly a rumour that Saddam might be in that building. They killed AT LEAST twenty six Iraqis who were just going about their business, including an entire (Christian) family of five - mother, father, three kids - who thought they were safe in their home.

[PRI's The World: from BBC/PRI/WGBH] How wars end - part II: the American Civil War | PRI's The World: Sharp: After the invasion of Iraq, Ayers was dismayed that in all the public debate over post-war reconstruction in 21st century Iraq, no one bothered to look at post-war reconstruction in the 19th century American South. After all, it involved many of the same elements: military occupation, democracy-building and economic development.

[Baghdad Bureau] Day and Night - Baghdad Bureau Blog - NYTimes.com: I would like to remind you that all of Iraq deserves notable credit for the security improvements as well as U.S. Troops before and after the surge. Iraqi Government officials, including Sunni leaders who have chosen to rejoin Iraq’s Government, militia leaders who have called cease-fires and the people of Iraq, from all sects, deserve credit too.

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