Bronwen Maddox in The Times reports:
It is also encouraging — up to a point — that the recruiting drive to the security forces has seen such interest from Shias. Some Iraqi security officers have told The Times that Shia recruitments make up as much as three quarters of the total.
If true, we now have a Shi`a government with a US-trained Shi`a security force in place in Iraq. One might even speculate as to whether the Badr Brigades are the New Iraqi Army.
