PRIMARY LOYALTIES.
Global guerrillas are in the final stages of the systematic elimination
of the all-volunteer Iraqi security system (which started in earnest
with the siege of Fallujah). As anticipated (particularly given John
Negroponte's appointment), the interim government's response has been
to delegate power to loyalist paramilitaries.
For example: Kurdish paramilitaries are now responsible for the
security on convoys from Turkey and the northern oil pipelines. This
decentralized approach draws on the same source of moral strength that
powers Iraq's global guerrillas: primary loyalties. … [Global Guerrillas]