It’s a little known fact that one of the big reasons Iraq turned around is we simply offered a better price than al Qaeda.
Within a month the word got out that we were paying top dollar and the insurgents were turning against the terrorists and the US body count started to drop.
Will the same strategy work elsewhere?
From the Times Online :
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