The UK Independent is now reporting that the US are preparing for
a full-scale assault on Ramadi because it 'has slipped into the hands of the insurgents.
According to the US military, the operation is at the orders of the Iraqi interim authority....'.
Looks like Allawi knows that he will not be Prime Minister and is preparing a poison chalice for the UIA. I also suspect that the Whitehouse want the insurgency to continue so that the new Iraqi government will never be in a position to ask the US to leave.