"An order to start."

the whole report is a must read!

According to fox visionary and military expert bill krystol the argument that sunnis and shia don't get along is mere pop psychology. And I have to ask, who ya gonna believe, a professional journalist on the ground in country or a cowardly chickenhawk hidden on the set of faux news?

a country's citizenry divide into armed factions and start killing each other? Also what are the chances that the Iraqi government can do anything to stop it. One last thing, Is the US military going to be ordered to try and fix this. Kinda like trying to stop a chain reaction after its past critical mass.

:sarcasm:

http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/

Alskari shrine again

Here comes the reinforcement for the first sectarian wave started back
in Fab. 2006.

Today, I woke up on the sound of American soldiers breaking their way
into the shops located infront of my house and destroying them on the
excuse of checking for guns and explosives.
A friend of mine who is one of the shop owners and lives just behind
his shop, he said that when the Americans came to the area and started
destroying the doors of the shops as they were locked, he said that he
went out and told him that he had the key and there's no reason for
them to break the door of the shop, the American soldier answerd him
exactly with these four words "shut the fuck up".

Anyway, after talking to my friend and seeing how damaged his shop was
by those mercenaries. I recieved the news about Alaskari shrine.
At first they said that two mortar shells fell close to the shrine
without damaging it, then I heard that 2 bombs were planted near the
towers of the shrine and destroyed the towers.

I actually didn't care about it at first, because Abu Hanifa shrine in
Adhamyia gets bombed almost every month and no one mention anything
about it in the news, also Abd Alqadir Shrine was attacked about a
month ago and it didn't have that kind of reaction from politicians,
then I was so surprised to see the reactions in the media, the huge
deprecation from politicians about what happened. It was like Sunni
shrines are okay to be bombed, but shiite once are not.

Anyway, the thing is that the shrine is besieged by Americans and that
no one from the citizens are allowed to reach it, or even to reach 1Km
near it, so how the hell did that shrine get bombed by Alqa`eda or
other terrorists?

Rumor has it, that yesterday a unit of police was sent to Samarra, and
that they are the ones behind the attack.

Anyway, My opinion is that I'm 100% sure that the Iraqi
government is behind that attack.

By the way, only 30 minutes after the shrine was attacked and it was in
the news, Alrubai Mousque in Alrubai street was burned by Alsadr
militia and several people were kidnapped from Alghazalyia.

She wrote that srticle under extreme emotional distress:

It's hard to see that when you know a death squad victim was taken in his pajamas in the dead of night and tortured to death with electric drills. Or when I look at the face of the young Iraqi interpreter sitting on my deak. His Marine Corps ID card tells me he was most likely an interpreter for them. His presence there on my desk reminds me that he was killed for being Sunni after being tried by an Islamic Sharia court run by Shiite militiamen, and his ID card was given to me as proof. Given to me by an Iraqi whose own life was already under threat, along with his pregnant wife and baby son who are already in hiding.

...

What I see is the face of a young Iraqi man staring up at me from his marine corps ID card, and I wonder if his family even know he is dead.

Beheadings, electric drill torture/executions. Saddam's era is starting to look like a period of compassion and kindness in Iraq.

:cry:

Also see this http://www.thetake.org/index.php

Iraq is getting better?

BTW even though this was so sad to read it is a must read....I hope Lara Logan doesn't lose her life over this assignment.