U.S. Makes Improbable Ally of Sunni Nationalist Group

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Two months ago, a dozen Sunni insurgents - haggard, hungry and in handcuffs - stepped tentatively into a U.S.-Iraqi combat outpost near Baqouba and asked to speak to the commander: "We're out of ammunition, but we want to help you fight al-Qaida."

Now hundreds of fighters from the 1920s Revolution Brigades, an erstwhile Sunni insurgent group, work as scouts and gather intelligence for the 10,000-strong American force in the fifth day of its mission to remove al-Qaida gunmen and bomb makers from the Diyala provincial capital.

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U.S. Makes Improbable Ally of Sunni Nationalist Group

Little so well illustrates the Middle Eastern dictum: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." And as it struggle...

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