US military opposes crackdown on 'Sahwas',... but may not be able to defend its Sunni allies from a largely Shia government and army

Patrick Cockburn in the Independent, here ".............Already the government has started moving against al-Sahwa, the Awakening Movement, fostered and paid by the US to eliminate al Qa’ida in Iraq. It has drawn up a list of 650 al-Sahwa members to be arrested. The US military opposes the move but may not be able to defend its Sunni allies from a largely Shia government and army ".....for the first time since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi government is confident that it can survive without US military support..."