What of the Sons of Iraq?
July 30th, 2008 by Adam
In the Christian Science Monitor, Tom Peter writes an important article about the difficulties of transitioning the Sons of Iraq from an auxiliary police force into other forms of employment. Only 17,000 of 103,000 (roughly 15%) have been integrated into the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). However, the high rates of integration into the ISF the U.S. envisioned has been stalled by the Iraqi government that is reluctant to integrate a Sunni armed force into an army that is predominately Kurdish and Shiite. Peter asserts that officials are worried that if the Sons of Iraq are not transferred into employment after the force is dissolved that security could suffer.
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