NEW YORK TIMES: …“After they occupied Mosul, we decided to come back from Syria to back the security forces here,” [Abu Ali Alakabaie] said.
He arrived in Baghdad later on Tuesday, joining a growing throng of Iraqi militia commanders and fighters eager to put to work here the finely honed skills they had accumulated in Syria in years of fighting some of the same Sunni militants who were now attacking Iraq. “We now have great experience in guerrilla fighting,” he said, adding diplomatically, “The Iraqi Army has no experience doing that.”
As he spoke Friday evening, hundreds of young Shiite men streamed past him, massing in a basketball arena in eastern Baghdad, lining up before recruiters like college students at a job fair. The officials took their names and addresses, to run background checks before adding them to the militia ranks… (more)
EDITOR: Here comes a civil war that will probably lead to the partitioning of Iraq along sectarian lines. The main beneficiaries will be the Kurds with a strong military and lots of oil wells.
