Posted on 09/17/2005 12:46:51 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
LONDON, September 17 - A top Iranian Shiite Muslim cleric blamed the United States for the latest wave of killings in Iraq where Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents have declared war on the majority Shiites.
"Killing in Iraq is on the rise. It is no longer tens of dead but now stands at hundreds. The US is not ashamed of what they have caused and they are not leaving the area," Ayatollah Ahmad Janati told worshippers at weekly prayers, according to AFP.
"Now that the elected Iraqi government wants to put to vote the draft constitution and seeks to establish peace, the US is constantly trying to say that this government ... can not establish tranquility, and it sows differences," he added amid chants of "Death to America."
Janati who heads Iran's powerful Guardians Council, a constitutional watchdog that screens all laws and elections, charged that Washington was "trying to make the Sunnis fearful of the Shiites and vice versa".
On Wednesday, a suicide car bomber killed 112 people (EDS: correct), most of them Shiites waiting to be hired as day laborers, in the Shiite district of Kadhimiyah in the Iraqi capital.
And a suicide car bomber Friday killed at least 10 people when he blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in the central Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu as worshippers headed out after prayers.
Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has called for "total war" against the country's Shiites.
Iran's foreign ministry condemned the suicide bombings in Baghdad as "contrary to Islamic values" but said they were further proof that the United States had failed to secure the country.
The Islamic republic, where some 90% of the population is Shiite, vehemently opposes the US presence in Iraq and has repeatedly demanded the withdrawal of American troops.
This is like the Devil blaming God for evil the Devil does.
I'm confused about this... The Sunni's blow up the Shiites and then Iran blames the US because they don't stop them from blowing each other up. I don't get it....
It is Muslims' thing! I didn't get it either!
Z-ster may have ripped his britches, there...
If we stay, he's screwed. If we leave, Iran kicks his heinie and expands into what it considers its "extraterritorial jurisdiction."
If we leave, I expect the Kurds to give the Iran-backed Shi'ites more of a fight than Al-Zarqawi's people. He--and Al Qaeda--are set up to fight Good Guys, and don't have a chance in a "fair" fight against the majority Shi'ites, who won't lose much sleep over the hearts and minds of people in the Sunni Triangle.
If the Syrians come in as seriously as the Iranians will, there will be a major dust-up.
It keeps me wondering whether promising to "preserve the territorial integrity of Iraq" was that good an idea, and it keeps me hoping most folks aren't stupid enough to listen to the calls to withdraw early...
Whatever, bottom line; Bush's fault. </src>
Sunni's and Shiites have been blowing each other up ever since gunpowder was invented. Now it's Bush's fault?
Just last Month Shiites (from Iran) were blowing Sunni's up. He sure didn't say anything then.
The Muslims don't even get it.
sounds like a third grade education.......what a moron...who believe's anything out of i-ran......
Janati should be scheduled for the Kindergarten Intelligence Test. The red triangle goes in the triangular red hole. The blue circle goes into the round blue hole. The Yellow rectangle . . . See? Now you're catching one.
Now: the cause of . . .
It's their propaganda strategy....blame us for everything and ignite a civil war. Same strategy as the MSM.
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