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# Quote of the day
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19029/
- Published: 2007-01-15T14:01:12.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:45.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**by Jessica Reed**

How the Sunni insurgency has changed, via a [Guardian article](http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1989397,00.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad:

*He \[a former Republican Guard commando named Rami\] told me that one of his main suppliers had been an interpreter working for the US army in Baghdad. "He had a deal with an American officer. We bought brand new AKs and ammunition from them." He claimed the American officer, whom he had never met but he believed was a captain serving at Baghdad airport, had even helped to divert a truckload of weapons as soon as it was driven over the border from Jordan.*