The New Yorker says:
One step the Pentagon took was to seek active and secret help in the war against the Iraqi insurgency from Israel, America's closest ally in the Middle East. According to American and Israeli military and intelligence officials, Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in Israel to help them prepare for operations in Iraq. Israeli commandos are expected to serve as ad-hoc advisers - again, in secret - when full-field operations begin. (Neither the Pentagon nor Israeli diplomats would comment. 'No one wants to talk about this,' an Israeli official told me. 'It's incendiary. Both governments have decided at the highest level that it is in their interests to keep a low profile on U.S.-Israeli coöperation - on Iraq.)
Wonderful. Now that this news is out, can we please scrap it? Idiots. (Via Alan at Southerly Buster.)
This makes a lot of sense...the Israelis have been WILDLY successful in dealing with their own internal conflict/guerilla war.
Oh, and nothing goes over so well in the Middle East quite like using Israeli tactics and making it known that you are using Israeli tactics.
Excuse me - where do I go to roll my eyes at this?
Russ
Legal Memo-Random
Posted by: Russ | December 09, 2003 at 03:48 PM
Your local polling place, November, 2004.
Posted by: Mithras | December 09, 2003 at 03:51 PM