Iraq Army soldier slays G.I.

[paganiniraq]

Iraq Army soldier slays G.I.
Attacker shot after rare clash between 2 sides
WASHINGTON - In a rare incident of fratricide between U.S. and allied Iraqi forces, a soldier in the new Iraqi Army allegedly shot and killed a U.S. Marine on a coalition base for joint operations in western Iraq, the U.S. military said yesterday.
The Iraqi soldier was shot by another Marine following the attack Thursday at the base near the Syrian border town of Al Qaim, according to a statement from the Marine base at Camp Fallujah, about 30 miles west of Baghdad. The Iraqi was taken to a hospital in Balad in "very serious" condition.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/407021p-344614c.html

[RET]

Not good. That. And this:

"U.S. commanders have periodically expressed concerns that insurgents or renegade militia elements might enlist to infiltrate the ranks of the fledgling Iraqi forces.

Iraqi recruits are vetted to weed out those suspected of having insurgent ties, but some U.S. troops in private have expressed their general distrust of the Iraqi forces and criticized their carelessness with weapons.

The Qaim incident could contribute to that distrust as the U.S. attempts to turn over control of more areas to the Iraqis as a prelude to U.S. troop withdrawals.

Last month, Army Gen. George Casey, the coalition commander in Iraq, complained that Iraqi troops "were allowing the Mahdi militia to pass through their checkpoints. And, obviously, this is not something that we are going to condone."

[paganiniraq]

I'm concerned about the ones that are soldiers by day and insurgents by night....