Deadly Cooperation

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/GoodMorningAmerica/collaborators030924.html

Occupations Breed ‘Snitches,’ Which in Turn, Spells Trouble

Sept. 24— Horrific as it was, the attack, when it happened, did not take the residents of Haditha by surprise — at least that's what they claimed when the international press descended on the western Iraqi town.

Days after Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi — the self-proclaimed, unabashedly pro-American, new mayor of Haditha — was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, the townspeople declared they had seen it coming.

"He was cooperating with the Americans," a street vendor in Haditha, who refused to give his name, told ABCNEWS with a shrug. snip

In the village of Thuluya earlier this year, a 28-year-old Iraqi man suspected of cooperating with U.S. troops was shot dead by his father and brother in the family back yard, according to a report in The Washington Post. In what appeared to be an honor killing, the family told the Post they had no other choice.

Honor crimes, or slayings undertaken to restore a family's perceived sense of lost honor, are an age-old practice in many parts of the Islamic world, but they are not exclusive to it.

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1. Yes, this is what Bush's Folly and the neocons have wrought.

The Iraqis know we didn't invade their country to bring them democracy. We came in to take over everything they have. (See the excellent piece in Harper's Magazine called "Baghdad Year Zero" at http://www.harpers.org/) To impose our brand of capitalism. In which, not so coincidentally, we help ourselves to a large portion of their profits.