Quotable: Who really runs Iraq?

Wed, 02/07/2007 - 8:23pm

Half of them are [Mahdi Army]. They'll wave at us during the day and shoot at us during the night. People (in America) think it's bad, but that we control the city. That's not the way it is. They control it, and they let us drive around. It's hostile territory."

-1st Lt. Dan Quinn, a platoon leader in the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, referring to the infiltration of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the Iraqi Police forces and Army.

(Hat tip: Newsdesk.org)

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