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NeoBabylonian -> RE: Iraqi Security forces are improving. (12/31/2007 5:11:34 PM)
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I am an Iraqi dude, but I live in the UK at the mo. I still have some good contact with some relatives stubborn and patriotic enough to stay there to keep their pride instead of go looking for assylum in neighbouring countries - or just stay in a goddamned summer home in Turkey.
Anyway, enough of my family trouble [:D]
From what I hear from them first-hand YellowSunshine, I am very sorry to say that, well, things aren't really getting that much better. Mailiki and his corrupt governments are still 'renting' themselves for Iran and selling out their own people in the process. All the while foriegn brain - washed fighters enter Iraq from neighbouring countries, suspiciously well trained and equiped, to do nothing but rape and pillage the country for whatever political power is backing them - the biggest beneficiaries seem to be neighbouring countries and their booming economies selling us over-priced basic commmodities on the black market.
Meanwhile, the coalition forces are leaving the Iraqi security forces hillariously badly armed, with AK's and RPG's - even the terrorists are beginning to get better, newer weapons - the weapons the coalition forces do give to the Iraqi security forces are finding their ways straight into terrorist hands in mass from corruption - especially death-squads who are now almost entirely armed with US weapons.
There are now daily clashes between terrorists and security forces - they say it is even worse than when i was there last year to visit relatives, and then there I heard skermishes every few hours. These fights obviously can go either way, as the security forces are forced to fight the terrorists in their own chosen arena in which the fight best at - urban guerilla warefare. The soldiers find themselves outnumbered, outgunned and out-trained, and loose many men for a stupid raid-caused skermish. The coalition then normally send in a few planes to bomb the whole place to take it back - or the land and rubble that remains.
Oh, and organised crime gangs in Iraq are sitting in heaven - illegally providing everything the government is supposed to but isn't, on the black market. When I was there, powerfull cartels bought massive generators and sell electricity to whole neighbourhoods, while others provided security in the form of illegal firearms and armed guards, sometimes recruited straight out of the police and special forces. The security forces are not even bothering to tackle them.
All the while, Maliki announces a new 'Security Crackdown' every other day to reassure the world. At best, this is just sending more security soldiers to their deaths at the hands of the dirty terrorist scum that infests Iraq - at worst and most likely in my opinion - it's no change on the ground. As this happens, the US and Coalition's relationship with the Iraqi governments moves further appart, and Iraq is in the danger of having those countries turn their backs at it and simply give up. If this happens, I only prey for the catastrophies that follow in Iraq will harm as few people as possible.
Thank you very much for reading my long post rant, but I just want to let you know what seems to be happening there to my knowledge, I really hope I am wrong and things there are much better.
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