http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/blog/victoria-fontan-on-slain-iraqis-journey <span>Victoria Fontan on Slain Iraqis Journey</span> <div class="field field--name-field-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> At <a href="http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2012/01/26/saf-with-sw-attack-on-former-aqi-leader">Carl Prine's Line of Departure</a>, Victoria Fontan traces the journey of Mollah Nadhom from bystander, to al-Qaeda insurgent, to Abu Ghraib, to Sawha member and human intelligence source.  It ended on January 25 with shots from a silenced gun in Baghdad.</p> <blockquote> <p> Because Mollah Nadhom is just another casualty of counter-insurgency, liberal peacemaking and nation-building, the moral of his story remains: Never trust an occupier who claims to be working for “peace,” for this peace is never what it claims to be.</p> </blockquote> </div> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:36pm</span> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/blog/victoria-fontan-on-slain-iraqis-journey" rel="tag" title="Victoria Fontan on Slain Iraqis Journey" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Victoria Fontan on Slain Iraqis Journey</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:36:53 +0000 Peter J. Munson 12203 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com