Tuesday, January 8, 2008

US military(taxpayer) paying 70,000 Iraqi insurgents $10/day not to be violent.

Military Officials Disagree on Impact of Surge

by Guy Raz | NPR | Morning Edition, January 8, 2008
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Creating a New Force

Some 70,000 former insurgents are now being paid $10 a day by the U.S. military. It costs about a quarter billion dollars a year.

It's a controversial strategy, and Macgregor warns that it's creating a parallel military force in Iraq that is made up almost entirely of Sunni Muslims...

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