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AlterNet: War on Iraq: Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq: "… It is still a shaky union, a desperate marriage of convenience based on shared enemies: Iran, and the Sunnis' former-friend-turned-foe Al Qaeda. Many of America's new allies are former insurgents and Saddam Hussein loyalists (Saddam was a Sunni) who only a short while ago were routinely called terrorists, 'anti-Iraqi fighters,' and 'Baathist dead-enders.' They are suspicious of one another and strongly anti-American, although willing to work, for the moment, with the U.S."

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