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Mon Jun-25-07 06:05 AM
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| Six sheikhs among 12+ killed in Baghdad hotel bombing |
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Edited on Mon Jun-25-07 06:07 AM by blitzen
Sunni tribal leaders allied with US against "al Qaeda" CNN just reported on the blast, made no mention of the Sheikhs, and said the dead were "mostly hotel employees." Meanwhile, back to the Jessie Davis murder... http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL25557493.htmlhttp://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21966389-5005961,00.html |
| Sen. Walter Sobchak
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Mon Jun-25-07 06:10 AM
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| 1. let me correct that... |
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Edited on Mon Jun-25-07 06:12 AM by policypunk
Six Baathist leaders, observant Sunni's are pretty sympathetic to Al Qaeda, while Baathists have been fighting Al Qaeda longer than we have.
"But the Baathists are worse than the nazi party" so lets just call them something else.
The Baathists being the only secular political movement or polical culture familiar to arabs, so naturally it was the first thing to be destroyed!
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Mon Jun-25-07 06:21 AM
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| 2. no reason to think they are Baathist.... |
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Edited on Mon Jun-25-07 06:22 AM by blitzen
They're various local tribal leaders from Western Anbar. Mostly loyal to their own local groups. There has been a lot of coverage on their aims (Juan Cole and elsewhere)--some of them really do want so-called "al Qaeda" out, after which they'll turn their attention to fighting Shiites. The notion that Sunnis are overall sympathetic to al Qaeda is a huge overgeneralzation--almost all Muslims are Sunni, and just a small portion are pro-al Qaeda.
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