I just produced this report, aired by the German-French channel Arte, after a week in Tarmiya, North of Baghdad (you can watch the French version here).
It shows how much the American military relies now on local tribal militias in the sunni areas.
I was lucky to attend the capture of two Al-Qaeda suspects.
The local boss of the Sons of Iraq militia was jailed for almost a year, charged with corruption and funding the insurgency. But because no one in town was more pertinent to deal with, nor less corrupted, the US eventually freed him…
An example for the future Iraq!
