Life and Death struggle for Iraq

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Life-and-death struggle for Iraq


By John Simpson
BBC World Affairs Editor

Only people outside Iraq bother to argue about whether what is happening here is a civil war.

Inside, they know how bad things are; they don't need to attach a label to it.

This is my eighth visit to Baghdad in the space of 13 months, and things are worse now than I have ever seen them.

The deliberate, well-planned efforts by extremists to provoke the Shia Muslim community into violence against Sunni Muslims have been depressingly successful.

Murder gangs have retaliated again and again against the Sunni community. Some Shia clerics are no longer so outspoken against these tit-for-tat killings.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4754472.stm

[Maraya1969]

1. This makes me sick. I hope the people who brought this about go

to jail. And that includes Blair along with the US group of evil doers.

[MichiganVote]

2. As more and more American tax payer money is withdrawn from

this pervasively corrupt country, the un-civil war will become more obvious. The *bots may distort it, but the fact is, money in that country means both peace and war.

[Village Idiot]

3. Am I alone in NOT believing that it was extremists?

Remember the "prison break" last year and the British soldiers masquerading as Iraqi insurgents?

I really don't think that this is too great of a stretch, considering that I really can't remember seeing too many attacks on mosques before last week by Sunni OR Shia insurgents...

and now, all of a sudden, extreme violence, mosques burning, death in the streets takes over three Iraqi cities?

AFB time, folks!

[Toots]

4. Negroponte works his magic..

:shrug: Anyone think the USA does not have a hand in things?