“Iraq to Begin Paying Sunni Volunteers Next Month”
“Iraq to Begin Paying Sunni Volunteers Next Month”
Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq;_ylt=AmSmUadUKnPGiKtcwlUyoQlX6GMA
Summery:
In this article they are talking about starting to pay Sunnis that fight against the insurgency. About 54,000 Sunni troops are going to start getting paid in an effort to help the insurgency to go down and make an actually army. The Shiites however believe that doing this will make the Sunnis turn their backs on the Shiites and attack them in the coming years. The shift from American Control to Iraqi control is the number of violence that has been steadily decreasing in the last few months. A lot of the 54,000 men are ex-loyalists to Saddam Hussein or ex-insurgents.
Analysis:
This move is good for the Iraqi people and government. This shows that there is progress in Iraq and that we are making good strides over there. Now the control is in most of the Iraqi governments control so the United States involvement is just a little bit lower. How this affects us in the United States and around the world is the same as it effects the people in Iraq. It shows progress and shows the Iraq government is very close to fight the insurgency themselves.
Filed under: TJ, Week of September 22-26
