Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
Interesting - is it because that the people they happen to be fighting consist mostley of Sunni Arabs?
Yes, it was a Sunni stronghold. The reporter was saying that although the fledgling government is trying to be ethnically diverse, in practical terms the different groups stick together and are still more loyal to tribe/religion/ethnicity than to the state of Iraq. Much of the country, he opined, was being ruled by tribal or religious militias and mafias.

That is a distinct possiblity given the current political and religious/ethnic make-up of the Iraqi provisional government. Given that they can not really agree on thier constitution, nor many other aspects of their own self-governing.
The vote on October 15th is going to be very important either way it goes, I think.