"The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled."
And they called it liberation.
"Iraqis celebrate departure of US soldiers, wary about future; Violence continues after last troops cross into Kuwait" December 19, 2011|By Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops yesterday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country’s potentially explosive sectarian lines, and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on.
Actually, it looks like PURE POWER CONCERNS to me.
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Yeah, CUI BONO from "sectarianism," readers?
Remember, readers, the same crew that front-paged the lies that led to this atrocity and has lied ever since is telling you that "sectarianism" is to blame.
The last US convoy rumbled out of Iraq across the border into Kuwait around sunrise under a shroud of secrecy to prevent attacks on the departing troops. When news reached a waking Iraqi public, there was joy at the end of a presence that many Iraqis resented as a foreign occupation....
The way any people would feel.
In the morning, a bomb hidden under a pile of trash exploded on a street of spare car parts stores in a mainly Shi’ite district of eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four others. It was the latest in the near-daily shootings and bombings - low-level but still deadly - that continue to bleed the country and that many fear will increase with the Americans gone.
Especially since the covert CIA-Duh teams have been left behind.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, dear readers, but I have come to learn that ALL ACTS of "terrorism" are INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OPERATIONS!!!!
Violence is far lower than it was at the worst of the war, in 2006 and 2007, when Sunni insurgents and Shi’ite militias preyed on Iraqis around the country in a vicious sectarian conflict that nearly turned into complete civil war. But those armed groups still remain, and there are deep concerns whether Iraqi security forces are capable of keeping them in check without the help of US troops....
I'm so sick of reading this we-should-still-be-there slop by the liars who got us in there in the first place. F*** you, AmeriKan media.
Equally worrying, the resentments and bitterness between the Shi’ite majority and Sunni minority in this country of 31 million remain unhealed. The fragile attempts to get the two sides to work together could collapse and even turn to greater violence. The feeling here is
In an escalation of the rivalry, the main Sunni-backed political bloc yesterday announced it was boycotting Parliament to protest what they called attempts by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi’ite, to monopolize government positions - particularly those overseeing the powerful security forces. The bloc has complained of security forces’ recent arrests of Sunnis that it says are “unjustified.’’
The Iraqiya bloc warned that it could take the further step of pulling its seven ministers out of Maliki’s coalition government.
Iraqiya is a US-allied bloc, dear readers!!
“We are against the concentration of security powers in the hands of one person, that is the prime minister,’’ said Sunni lawmaker Hamid al-Mutlaq, a member of the bloc.
In particular, the bloc was angered by the arrest of several bodyguards of Vice President Tareq al-Hashimi, a Sunni, several days ago on suspicion of involvement in terrorist acts.
Oh, so US intel was using him as a facilitator, 'eh?
Yesterday, a senior security official said that judges investigating the bodyguards banned Hashimi from traveling outside of Iraq - a step that is likely to further anger the Iraqiya bloc, to which Hashimi belongs. The security official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
Sunnis have long feared domination by the country’s Shi’ites, who vaulted to power after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein at the hands of the Americans. The rivalry was exacerbated by the years of sectarian killing.
The Iraqiya bloc narrowly won the most seats in last year’s parliamentary election. But its leader, Ayad Allawi, was unable to become prime minister, outmaneuvered by Maliki, who kept the post after cobbling together key support from Shi’ite parties.
How odd that the newspaper does NOT MENTION that Allawi is a SHI'ITE!!
That has left Maliki beholden to Shi’ite factions, including those led by radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militiamen were blamed for sectarian killings during the worst of Iraq’s violence. Since forming his new government, Maliki has effectively controlled the Interior and Defense Ministries, which oversee the police and military, while conflicts between Sunni and Shi’ite politicians have delayed the appointment of permanent ministers.
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Not to be callous about it, but I really don't care. It is THEIR COUNTRY! Let THEM TAKE CARE of IT themselves!
Hasn't AmeriKa done ENOUGH DAMAGE?
"Iraq issues arrest order for vice president, claiming terror links; Warrant for Sunni leader stirs fears of sectarian strife" by Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press / December 20, 2011
Iraq’s Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for the Sunni vice president, accusing him of running a hit squad that assassinated government and security officials - extraordinary charges a day after the last U.S. troops left the country.
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What a surprise.
The move against the country’s highest-ranking Sunni official marked a sharp escalation in sectarian tensions, raising fears of a resurgence of large-scale bloodshed. Although many Iraqis welcomed the American withdrawal, ending the nine-year U.S. war, there are also considerable fears here that violence will worsen.
So when does the CIA start cranking up covert operations again?
‘‘Iraq is slipping into its worst nightmares now, and Iraqi people will pay a high price because of the struggle among political blocs after the pullout of U.S. troops,’’ said Baghdad-based political analyst Kadhum al-Muqdadi, a Shiite.
Meaning it is NOT REALLY SECTARIANISM, is it? It's -- as usual -- more about POWER and WHO HAS IT!
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Obama administration had expressed its concerns to all of the parties involved regarding the issuing of the warrant.
‘‘We are urging all sides to work to resolve differences peacefully and through dialogue in a manner consistent with the rule of law and the democratic political process,’’ Carney said.
The hypocrisy of this war criminal government is astounding.
Sunnis suspected the charges against al-Hashemi were politically motivated. Al-Hashemi is an old rival of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and the arrest order came two days after the main Sunni-backed political bloc, Iraqiya, suspended its participation in parliament because al-Maliki refused to give up control over key posts.
Al-Maliki, a Shiite, has made a series of moves in recent months to consolidate his hold on power. Hundreds of former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party have been rounded up, allegedly as security threats, although no proof has been given. In Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown, arrests have become so commonplace that whenever a police car shows up, young men flee from the street.
Look at the WAR-PROMOTING AmeriKan media NOW SYMPATHIZING with Saddam supporters! Since when did the mouthpiece media here need proof?
State-run television aired what it characterized as confessions by men said to be working as bodyguards for al-Hashemi.
Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam and his Sunni-dominated Baath party regime, the Sunni minority has constantly complained of attempts by the Shiite majority to sideline them.
At first the Sunnis waged an insurgency against the Americans, then became U.S. allies against al-Qaida, but relations with the Shiite-led national government are still frosty.
Everyday relations between Sunnis and Shiites are much better than they were at the height of the insurgency, when neighbors turned on neighbors and whole sections of Baghdad were expunged of one Muslim sect or the other. Sunnis and Shiites can travel throughout the country without fear of being shot at a checkpoint by a militia.
Iraq is now far quieter than at the height of the war but with an uneasy peace achieved through intimidation and bloodshed.
That is what "won" you the war, 'murkan.
The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled.
The forced segregation, fueled by extremists from both communities, has fundamentally changed the character of the country.
It's called liberation.
And it raises questions about whether the Iraqis can heal the wounds of the sectarian massacres now that the American soldiers have left.
Disgusting.
Toward the end of the U.S. occupation, many Sunnis came to feel that the American military was treating them fairly, or at least more fairly than the Shiite-led government. They fear that the U.S. departure now means the loss of a protector.
I really can't take anymore of this stank "reporting."
The parliament boycott by Iraqiya, headed by Ayad Allawi, was in response to the government’s failure to share more powers, particularly the posts that control security forces, said Sunni lawmaker Hamid al-Mutlaq, a member of the bloc.
Iraqiya narrowly won the most seats in last year’s parliamentary election, but Allawi was outmaneuvered by al-Maliki, who kept the premier’s post after cobbling together key support from other Shiite parties.
For more than a year now, al-Maliki has effectively controlled the Interior and Defense Ministries, which oversee the police and military, while conflicts between Sunni and Shiite politicians have delayed the appointment of permanent ministers.
Al-Mutlaq warned that Iraqiya could take a further step if its demands are not met — pulling its seven ministers out of al-Maliki’s coalition government.
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WTF?
"Iraqi political woes mount as accusations fly between leaders; Vice president, eluding arrest, denies treachery" by Michael S. Schmidt New York Times / December 21, 2011
The political crisis in Iraq deepened on Tuesday, as the Sunni vice president angrily rebutted charges that he had ordered his security guards to assassinate government officials, saying that Shi’ite-backed security forces had induced the guards into false confessions.
In a nationally televised news conference, the vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, blamed the Shi’ite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for using the country’s security forces to persecute political opponents, specifically Sunnis.
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Why bother with the rest of the links or items from the Boston Globe?
Btw, who is "Al-CIA-Duh?"
What do you mean they were made up, and created for the courtroom!?
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Who are the "terrorists" again?
Update:
"The latest problems have laid bare the sectarian fissures still pervasive in society
What a crock of crap.
And let the rewrite and reedit begin:
despite ongoing reconciliation efforts, encouraged by American diplomats, in the years since a sectarian civil war nearly tore apart the country....
Yeah, we are trying to help put it together -- after WE WERE the ONES WHO RIPPED 'EM APART!!!
Many Iraqis feared the consequences of a power vacuum left by the departing American troops....
As they gave us the one-fingered salute on the way out for smashing their country, littering it with depleted uranium, and having killed members of their families.
Web adder:
The largest American Embassy in the world is here. The United States is spending nearly $1 billion a year to train Iraq’s police, and is spending billions more arming Iraq’s military with tanks, fighter jets and other weapons....
I'm sure that last bit is making some war profiteer happy.
And this BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT has a COOL BILLION to TRAIN and EQUIP IRAQI COPS while COPS BACK HOME are having their collective bargaining rights stripped and are facing layoffs.
But the war is over.
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The Globe is going to make this catching-up stuff easy at this rate.
