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On Friday, CBS' Lara Logan reported on Sunni guerrillas in the Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriyah who have turned on their erstwhile insurgent allies from al-Qaeda and are now fighting with US troops. Now ABC's Jonathan Karl (subscription required) follows up from the Pentagon with the same counterinsurgency technique outside the capital. He called it "a classic example of the enemy of the enemy is my friend." Karl reported that former insurgents have already been armed by the United States in al-Anbar province; now guerrilla groups in Diyala and Salahaddin provinces, including the Baathist 1920s Revolution Brigade, will get weapons too. From Baghdad, NBC's Jim Maceda quoted critics of the scheme calling it "very dangerous" since the guerrillas could turn US weapons on US troops. Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations added a second concern for ABC's Karl: the Sunni militants could use their US-supplied arsenal against the government of Iraq "in a continuation of the civil war."
As for Logan herself, she moved on to join the USArmy's 82nd Airborne Division as it patrols the mountain border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. She showed videotape of 500 Taliban militants rallying at a Pakistani base, "mostly Pakistani and Arabic bombers for suicide missions inside Afghanistan" and then in the Afghan city of Ghazni she found one of the Pakistani would-be bombers "his vest already laden with explosives and ready to go." Gen David Rodriguez told Logan that al-Qaeda militants are also regrouping inside Pakistan and that their objectives coincide with those of the Taliban "about 70% or 80% of the time." Pakistan has forbidden US troops from crossing the border. "Can you defeat the insurgency here if you do not and cannot get at its support bases?" "No. I think that is all part of the solution."
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