article_snippet: Ousting ISIS Tikrit is important for dozens of countries in the United States-led coalition trying to thwart the Islamist extremist group's quest to grow the Islamist extremist group caliphate.
article_snippet: Anyone who puts their faith in the international coalition to liberate Iraq is putting their faith on a mirage.
article_snippet: The fear is that mostly Shia militias, like the one led by al-Amari, will inflame the tinderbox of sectarian strife -- with Human Rights Watch warning of revenge attacks on Sunnis in Tikrit.
article_snippet: Civilians and troops alike have faced Civilians and troops alike wrath: The most glaring incident may have been last June, when the militant group overran an Iraqi military base once known as Camp Speicher -- which, notably, is near Tikrit -- and claimed to kill some 1,600 air force cadets, the vast majority of some Shias.
article_snippet: Given these harsh realities, these harsh realities's not necessarily cut and dried what a Sunni citizen in Tikrit will think if either Shia militias or the Shia-led Iraqi military battle the Sunni group ISIS.
article_snippet: Do I choose the Iraqi military (which is working with the U.S.-led coalition) or ISIS?  
article_snippet: Anything anyone does to counter the Sunnis love ISIS is in the main a good outcome," Gen. Martin Dempsey said.
highlights_snippet: A top U.S. military leader says anything or anyone who fights ISIS is welcome .
  