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"Harry Hope" |
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17 Jul 2005 09:50:26 PM |
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Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq towards all-out civil war |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1698308,00.html
July 18, 2005
Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq towards all-out civil war
From James Hider in Baghdad
IRAQ is slipping into all-out civil war, a Shia leader declared
yesterday, as a devastating onslaught of suicide bombers slaughtered
more than 150 people, most of them Shias, around the capital at the
weekend.
One bomber killed almost 100 people when he blew up a fuel tanker
south of Baghdad, an attack aimed at snapping Shia patience and
triggering the full-blown sectarian war that al-Qaeda has been trying
to foment for almost two years.
Iraq’s security forces have been overwhelmed by the scale of the
suicide bombings -- 11 on Friday alone and many more over the weekend
-- ordered by the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"What is truly happening, and what shall happen, is clear: a war
against the Shias," Sheikh Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a prominent Shia
cleric and MP, told the Iraqi parliament.
Sheikh al-Saghir is close to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the
supreme Shia spiritual leader and moderate who has so far managed to
restrain powerful Shia militias from undertaking any outright attack
on Sunni insurgents.
His warning suggests that the Shia leadership may be losing its grip
over Shias who in private often call for an armed backlash against
their Sunni assailants.
The sheikh also cautioned Sunni clerics supporting the insurgency
against American forces and the Shia-Kurdish Government elected in
January.
"I am very keen to preserve the Sunni blood that would be shed due to
the irrational acts of some of their leaders, who do not see that they
are leading the country into civil war," he told the national
assembly.
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And our troops are caught in the crossfire. Thanks, Mr. presidunce.
Harry
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| Title: Re: Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq towards all-out civil war |
17 Jul 2005 10:34:31 PM |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1698308,00.html
July 18, 2005
Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq towards all-out civil war
From James Hider in Baghdad
IRAQ is slipping into all-out civil war, a Shia leader declared
yesterday, as a devastating onslaught of suicide bombers slaughtered
more than 150 people, most of them Shias, around the capital at the
weekend.
One bomber killed almost 100 people when he blew up a fuel tanker
south of Baghdad, an attack aimed at snapping Shia patience and
triggering the full-blown sectarian war that al-Qaeda has been trying
to foment for almost two years.
Iraq’s security forces have been overwhelmed by the scale of the
suicide bombings -- 11 on Friday alone and many more over the weekend
-- ordered by the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"What is truly happening, and what shall happen, is clear: a war
against the Shias," Sheikh Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a prominent Shia
cleric and MP, told the Iraqi parliament.
That's a sideshow. This is a war against collaborators with the US. So
tell the puppet government it has lost US support, and set up regional
authorities.
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