Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World by Nir Rosen

Author:Nir Rosen [Rosen, Nir]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781568584010
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2011-04-21T15:28:47.671082+00:00

Though Gentile was skeptical that COIN was a cure-all, he knew that he could not kill his way out of the problems he was facing in the district either, so he started fraternizing with local religious leaders, even those with strong links to insurgent groups. He met regularly with Sheikh Walid of the Tikriti Mosque, Sheikh Khalid of the Abbas Mosque, and the imam of the Hassanein Mosque. “I spent a lot of personal time with them, and I think it made a difference in terms of how we were perceived in the area,” he says. “I actually became close to them and considered them my friends.” He even visited two mosques—close to where his battalion was often pounded by IED strikes—that were considered to be strongly influenced by Al Qaeda and befriended Sheikh Hussein of the Maluki Mosque.

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