U.S. Having Trouble Rallying Sunni Recruits
U.S. took to recruiting former Sunni insurgents to help against the fight against extremists so as to secure a win. It doesn’t seem though as if the government will be cooperate with this. They are either unable or unwilling to accept the volunteers into Iraqi security forces. The potential breakdown in Diyala, described by U.S. and Iraqi officials in interviews this weeks underscores the challenges of copying the military-militia alliances that uprooted al-Qaida in Iraq and other factions from strongholds in Iraq’s western desert.