US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing
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Iraq's American overlords at last seem to have grasped the danger posed
by their friends' militias. But it may be too late
Jonathan Steele in Baghdad
Friday April 14, 2006
The Guardian
Much ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on
the verge of, in the midst of, or nowhere near civil war. Wherever you
stand in this largely semantic debate, the one certainty is that the
seedbed for the country's self-destruction is Iraq's plethora of
militias. In the apt phrase of Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in
Baghdad, they are the "infrastructure of civil war".
He is not the first US overlord in Iraq to spot the danger. Shortly
before the formal transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis, America's then top
official Paul Bremer ordered all militias to disband. Some members
could join the new army. Others would have to look for civilian work.
Jonathan Steele
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