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Question re: Iraq
I'm reading about the discovery of 56 bodies in Iraq, all showing signs of torture, probably victims of a sectarian death squad. These stories have become so commonplace it's easy to gloss over them.
And I'm wondering: What proportion of Iraqis are involved in militias, death squads, private armies, terror cells, and the other sorts of networks that carry out these crimes? What proportion of Iraqis actively support them? What proportion of Iraqis passively support them? (i.e., maybe don't provide money or weapons or shelter, but also don't report what they could to police or military). What proportion sympathize? (i.e., are happy when these things happen, view the Mahdi army as fighting for them, prefer the Mahdis to the US).
I assume that no one believes that it's all "foreign fighters" causing havoc in Iraq. My question is, how much of the population is it?
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