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Unlikely Allies Aid Militants in Iraq

(Wall Street Journal) Matt Bradley and Bill Spindle - Radical Sunni fighters in northern Iraq are being aided by local tribes who reject the Islamists' extreme ideology but sympathize with their goal of ousting the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. This alliance helps explain how several hundred ISIS insurgents have handily defeated a far larger, better-equipped Iraqi army and come to control about a third of Iraqi territory. "This is a revolution against the unfairness and marginalization of the past 11 years" by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said Sheikh Khamis Al Dulaimi, a tribal leader in the Anbar Military Council of Tribal Revolutionaries, a group that has led protests against Maliki for the past year and a half.

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