Stephen Sniegoski
Despite the alleged success of the surge, it is now apparent that sectarian hostility between Sunni and Shiite was not permanently reduced in Iraq but only temporarily quieted, and that once American troops leave, or are greatly reduced in number, extensive violence will breakout. This is brought out in the Washington Post article—“Just weeks before elections, specter of sectarian violence resurfaces in Iraq,” by Leila Fadel (February 17, 2010)
Such sectarian violence was the inevitable result of the American invasion and was fully recognized before the US invaded. As I point out in my book “The Transparent Cabal,” the neocons adopted a Middle East war strategy for the US that originated in Israel, which had as its deliberate goal the fragmentation of Israel’s adversaries. As Oded Yinon, the best articulator of this strategy, maintained in his 1982 article, the Arab states were fragile entities that were held together by an authoritarian central governments. A defeat in war would lead to the splintering of those states into conflicting ethnic and sectarian religious groups, which would facilitate Israeli regional hegemony. It should be added that Israel Shahak’s translation of Yinon’s article was entitled “The Zionist Plan for the Middle East.”
And Negroponte's "Salvador Option" also needs to be mentioned, as sowing discord and destruction was and is its only aim, with the demise of Iraq its goal.
ReplyDelete<p><span>“Iraq is not a sectarian society. People are intermarried. Shiites and Sunnis marry each other…Some from the militias and death squads want a civil war (but) there has never been a civil war in Iraq. The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke a civil war? The Americans will say that it’s al Qaida or the Sunni insurgents; it is the death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do; the occupation authorities.” (Robert Fisk, Somebody is trying to provoke a Civil War) </span></p>
The people who caused sectarian tension in Iraq were non Iraq Sunni Arabs. It is they who sent thousands of non Iraqi Sunni Arab suicide bombers to mass murder Iraqis.
ReplyDeleteThe fighting between Sunni and Shiite is the predictable upshot of random bombings and violence which bears the signature of covert operations carried out by intelligence organizations. Most of the pandemonium in Iraq is the result of counter insurgency operations (black-ops) on a massive scale not civil war.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't read the article. Again.
ReplyDeleter.s. how much do the Saudis pay you?
ReplyDeleteIn fact, r.s. is on to something. The suicide bomb campaign to mass murder Iraqis couldn't have happened without large scale involvement by the Arab dictators and their intelligence/military agencies.
r.s. is an Arab. Logic is not a strong suit of the Arabs these days, sadly.
ReplyDelete<p><span>Who benefits from the chaos created by the endless bombings?</span><span></span>
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</p><p><span>On the 22 February 2006, the same day as the mysterious and criminal bombing of the Imam 'Ali al-Hadi in Samarra', the Arab Socialist Baath Party issued a statement saying it had nothing to do with the attack. On Friday, 24 February, al-Qaeda in Iraq issued a statement that tacitly denied any involvement in the bombing.</span>
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</p><p><span>Who started the sectarian strife in Iraq?</span><span></span>
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</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmhBqmplT6A
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"<span><span>Who started the sectarian strife in Iraq?</span><span></span> "</span>
ReplyDelete<span>Saddam did, but I don't expect our Arab ukhwan to learn about what happened in Iraq before 2003. </span>
http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/05/saddams-killing-fields.html
Who benefits from the chaos? Fox News and its viewers know the answer!
ReplyDelete"With Iraqi resistance to the occupation continuing, the US has turned to ever more desperate attempts to foster sectarianism in Iraq. Such is the madness of the system that this makes sense to them. For example, Daniel Pipes, a prominent neo-con spokesperson, said of the possibility of civil war in Iraq: "I don't think, from the point of view of the coalition, it is necessarily that bad for our interests ... There would be fewer attacks on us as the Shiites and the Sunnis attack each other". Fox News carried items headed "Up-side to civil war?" and "All-out civil war in Iraq: could it be a good thing?""
and our Arab & Muslim "brothers" oblige. how sick is that?
ReplyDelete"The night before the explosion, he said, just before the 8 p.m. curfew on Feb. 21, 2006, men dressed in commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry entered the shrine. The caretaker said he had been beaten, tied up and locked in a room. Throughout the night, he said, he could hear the sound of drilling as the attackers positioned the explosives, apparently in such a way as to inflict maximum damage on the dome”. (NY Times)
ReplyDeleteClearly, if the men were men dressed in “commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry”, then the logical place to begin an investigation would be the Interior Ministry. But there's never been an investigation and the caretaker has never been asked to testify about what he saw on the night of the bombing.
"The night before the explosion, he said, just before the 8 p.m. curfew on Feb. 21, 2006, on the Western calendar, men dressed in commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry entered the shrine. The caretaker said he had been beaten, tied up and locked in a room. Throughout the night, he said, he could hear the sound of drilling as the attackers positioned the explosives, apparently in such a way as to inflict maximum damage on the dome”. (NY Times)
ReplyDeleteClearly, if the men were men dressed in “commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry”, then the logical place to begin an investigation would be the Interior Ministry. But there's never been an investigation and the caretaker has never been asked to testify about what he saw on the night of the bombing.
"The night before the explosion, he said, just before the 8 p.m. curfew on Feb. 21, 2006, men dressed in commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry entered the shrine. The caretaker said he had been beaten, tied up and locked in a room. Throughout the night, he said, he could hear the sound of drilling as the attackers positioned the explosives, apparently in such a way as to inflict maximum damage on the dome”. (NY Times)
ReplyDeleteClearly, if the men were men dressed in “commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry”, then the logical place to begin an investigation would be the Interior Ministry. But there's never been an investigation and the caretaker has never been asked to testify about what he saw on the night of the bombing.
<span>"The night before the explosion, he said, just before the 8 p.m. curfew on Feb. 21, 2006, men dressed in commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry entered the shrine. The caretaker said he had been beaten, tied up and locked in a room. Throughout the night, he said, he could hear the sound of drilling as the attackers positioned the explosives, apparently in such a way as to inflict maximum damage on the dome”. (NY Times)
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<span>Clearly, if the men were men dressed in “commando uniforms like those issued by the Interior Ministry”, then the logical place to begin an investigation would be the Interior Ministry. But there's never been an investigation and the caretaker has never been asked to testify about what he saw on the night of the bombing.</span>