For U.S. Unit in Baghdad, An Alliance of Last Resort - washingtonpost.com: "The American soldiers in Amiriyah have allied themselves with dozens of Sunni militiamen who call themselves the Baghdad Patriots -- a group that American soldiers believe includes insurgents who have attacked them in the past -- in an attempt to drive out al-Qaeda in Iraq. The Americans have granted these gunmen the power of arrest, allowed the Iraqi army to supply them with ammunition, and fought alongside them in chaotic street battles."
"'We have made a deal with the devil,' said an intelligence officer in the battalion."
How many times have we tried deals like this in the past and ended up paying for them in American lives?
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