U.S. SUNNI ALLIES GO ON STRIKE IN IRAQ: CLAIM POLICE CHIEF IS CORRUPT

There continues to be growing signs the "surge" is about to implode in Iraq.

Members of a Sunni brigade, who have been working with U.S. troops in Diyala Province, Iraq, went on strike alleging the chief of police of the province is corrupt.

In other parts of Iraq the violence and mayhem continue unabated with more decapitated bodies found outside of Baghdad and five U.S. soldiers killed near Baghdad when a roadside bomb blew up their Humvee.

As we have been reporting, the media in the United States continues to look the other way when it comes to reporting on what is happening in Iraq.

The shame of it all is we have 160,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq who are caught in the middle of what appears to be an insurrection with certain Sunni brigades who had been friendly to U.S. forces going on strike.

Commentary by Bill Corcoran, editor of CORKSPHERE, http://corksphere.blogspot.com/, a blog which brings readers up-to-the-minute reports on what is taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan which are no longer covered by the mainstream media in the United States.

America's Sunni allies go on strike in Iraq's Diyala province

Steve Lannen McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/27147.html

BAGHDAD — Members of U.S.-allied citizen brigades, which are credited with helping to tamp down violence in many parts of Iraq, went on strike Friday in Diyala province, alleging that the provincial police chief there is running a death squad.

A leader of the group said that brigade members, most of them Sunni Muslims, wouldn't resume working with U.S. and Iraqi government forces until the Shiite police chief resigns or is indicted.

A curfew was imposed, and police throughout the province ended their patrols early to avoid clashes with the U.S.-funded concerned local citizens, or "popular committees" as they're known in Diyala, who staged demonstrations against the police chief. No casualties were reported.

The strike highlights the tenuous relationship between U.S.-allied Sunni-dominated citizen militias and the Shiite-dominated, U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces.

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