From Al-Qaeda’s War on Iraq.” Phares asks who is waging the war on Iraq, and then offers an answer: Tuesday’s deadly bombings in Basra provide us with the answer. In several mortar and car bomb explosions, directed against police stations and civilians, terrorist attacks killed more than 70 men, women and children and injured nearly […]
Car Bombs Leave 60 Dead in Southern Iraq
From AP: BASRA, Iraq – A series of car bombs ripped through police stations and an academy during rush hour Wednesday morning, killing at least 60 people, including schoolchildren, and wounding scores in the bloodiest attacks to hit this mainly Shiite city since the U.S.-led occupation began a year ago. Iraqis pulled charred and torn […]
The Tendency to Blame Others
Dr. Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed in Arab News (thanks to Nicolei) writes well about the recent massacres of Shi’ites by Sunnis in Karbala, and the absurdity of the general tendency to blame America for everything: What is overwhelming, however, is the reaction while the blood is still hot and streaming down the streets of Iraq. A […]
Hardline Shi’ites Denounce Iraq’s New Constitution
“We demand elections” says the sign. Because he knows Sharia advocates will win? I’ve only been predicting this kind of thing would happen in Iraq for about a year, although I’ve been discussing the reasons why it’s happening for longer than that. Others, of course, have seen this coming for years. From Reuters: Around 2,000 […]
Shiites refuse to sign Iraq charter
The pens were ready The signing ceremony for the new Iraqi provisional constitution didn’t happen. Sistani is flexing his muscles. From AP: Shiite leaders refused to sign an interim constitution after Iraq’s top Shiite cleric rejected portions of the charter, in a last- minute dispute that wrecked a planned signing ceremony Friday and marred a […]
Sunni/Shi’ite warfare
Shi’ites have been attacked during a religious procession in Pakistan and at mosques in two cities in Iraq. Sunni vs. Shi’ite warfare is nothing new, but non-Muslim powers should never imagine that they can exploit these divisions for their own purposes. The ethos of “my brother against my brother, but both of us against our […]