To add a bit more to this morning’s post on increasing the end-strength of the Iraqi security forces: according to Major General Benjamin Mixon, commander of U.S. troops in the Iraqi north, members of those same security forces collaborated in the attack on the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. Mixon says he’s going to reinforce Samarra — with another Iraqi Army brigade.
About Those Iraqi Security Forces
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June 13, 2007 12:10 p.m.
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