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Titolo: Generale del (nuovo) esercito Irakeno si unisce alla resistenza

Questo e' MOLTO interessante
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040911/ts_latimes/ineffectiveiraqiforceinfalloujadisbanded&cid=2026&ncid=1480
Ineffective Iraqi Force in Fallouja Disbanded
 
 
By Alissa J. Rubin Times Staff Writer 
RAMADI, Iraq The Iraqi military force formed by the Marines in a
last-ditch effort to pacify the restive city of Fallouja has been
disbanded in the face of continuing violence, assaults on government
security forces and evidence that some members have been working
openly with insurgents. 
  The dissolution of the Fallouja Brigade, created during the spring
to avoid an all-out assault on the insurgent hotbed, marked a
significant setback for the U.S. military. The Americans had hoped
that the brigade, composed of former members of the Iraqi army and
Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s special security forces, would
work alongside the new Iraqi government and help restore order. 
"The Fallouja Brigade is done, over," said Marine Col. Jerry L.
Durrant, who oversees the 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit's involvement
with Iraqi security forces. "The whole Fallouja Brigade thing was a
fiasco. Initially it worked out OK, but it wasn't a good idea for very
long." 
Durrant did not say what the Marines might do next, but U.S. warplanes
Friday bombed Fallouja for the fourth consecutive day and the air
campaign was expected to continue and possibly intensify. Friday's air
attack targeted earth-moving equipment being used by insurgents to
build fighting positions, a Marine spokesman said. 
With the demise of the Fallouja Brigade — agreed to by the interim
Iraqi government and the Marines — the Marines are left with no
attractive options for rooting out Fallouja's entrenched insurgency.
The rebel movement has spread to surrounding villages and left the
interim Iraqi government without control of one of the nation's
largest cities west of Baghdad. Marines remain based as close as two
miles from Fallouja, but the insurgents — local and foreign fighters
backed by firebrand Sunni Muslim clerics — have had several months to
dig in and make it more difficult for American troops or Iraqi
government forces to launch a ground attack. 
The development comes as U.S. forces try to reestablish Iraqi
government control in several insurgent bastions, including Samarra,
to the north of Baghdad, just months before scheduled national
elections. 
Gen. Abdullah Hamid Wael, the brigade's latest leader, announced the
dissolution Thursday night on instructions from the Defense Ministry. 
Speaking at an Iraqi military base west of Fallouja, Wael read from a
ministry statement that said "any member of the brigade can, as an
individual, join the Iraqi national guard or the Iraqi police." 
Discontent rippled through the group, many of whose members had hoped
that it would remain intact and eventually become a unit of the new
army. Judging by members' comments, it seemed likely that some would
openly rejoin the insurgency, in which many had been involved before
joining the brigade. In doing so, they would be able to fight with
weapons provided to them by the Marines, who also paid them monthly
salaries. 
That will make it all the more difficult for U.S. troops and Iraqi
government forces to retake Fallouja — currently a "no go" area for
U.S. forces. 
"We don't know where to go now after this dismissal by the American
troops and the Iraqi interim government," said Brig. Gen. Tayseer
Latief of the brigade. "They leave us no other option but to join the
resistance."

 
E, caro disinformatore di un Torrieri, ci diresti dove sta questo
Generale dell'esercito Irakeno che si e' unito alla resistenza?
Perche' l'articolo da te citato non ne parla proprio :)
-Stefano