Sunnis build up their own militia in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO643996.htm

Sunnis build up their own militia in Iraq


BAGHDAD, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Sunni Arabs have formed their own militia to counter Shi'ite and Kurdish forces as part of an attempt to regain influence they lost after Saddam Hussein was toppled.

The so-called "Anbar Revolutionaries" have emerged from a split in the anti-U.S. insurgency, which included al Qaeda.

They are a new addition to a network of militias that have thrived in Iraq's bloody chaos and are tied to the country's leading ethnic and political parties, now negotiating the formation of a coalition government after the Dec. 15 election, the second such polls since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The newly-organised militia is made up mostly of Saddam loyalists leading an insurgency against U.S. and Iraqi government forces, Iraqi Islamists and other nationalists.

[acmavm]

1. made up mostly of Saddam loyalists leading an

insurgency against U.S and Iraqi government forces, Iraqi Islamists and other nationalists.
<SNIP>

They're gonna beat that old Saddam loyalists til hell freezes over and then some.

[Eugene]

2. The slide to civil war continues.

While BushCo talks about democracy and bringing the Sunnis into the political process,
the warring factions are getting better organized and digging in for a fight.