Posted on 02/02/2006 6:49:02 AM PST by jmc1969
Iraq's Sunni leadership presented the majority-Shi'ite government yesterday with a 10-point ultimatum that they said would either end the violence or lead to a national strike and widespread street demonstrations.
It was the first time the Sunni minority has publicly offered conditions to end a bloody insurgency that has left thousands of Iraqis dead. However, it was not clear how much control the political parties have over the insurgents, who include foreign terrorists and disgruntled former members of dictator Saddam Hussein's military.
At the top of the list of demands was the resignation of the interior minister and his entire staff -- who are seen as leading a brutal anti-Sunni campaign through Iranian-trained Badr militias and a pro-Shi'ite police force.
The call comes amid a rise in sectarian killings, which Sunnis suspect are sanctioned by the government. Bodies of Sunnis, many blindfolded and shot in the head, are found almost daily.
Speaking through Tariq al-Hashimi, who heads the Islamic Party within the Sunni-led Iraqi Accordance Front coalition, the Sunnis also asked that the Iraqi army take over from the police in the country's cities.
At a Baghdad press conference that was telecast across the region, Mr. al-Hashimi said all militias in Iraq must be disarmed. He called for a halt to random arrests, or any arrest without a court order, and said all those being held without court orders should be released.
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Are you from Middle Eastern descent?
Where pray tell did I say the Sunnis would win? You didn't read what I had to say. I said the Sunnis wouldn't go down easily and I said that for a good reason. Just look at the difference between the US vs the Madhi Army in August 2004 and the US vs the Sunnis and foreign fighters in Fallujah three months later. The Madhi Army was a joke compaired to what the military faced in Fallujah. The Shia are learning and arming, but they still have far to go.
And, you also didn't read my post all that well, because I never said the Shia in Iraq are the same as the Shia in Iran.
If a civil war breaks out the Shia in Iraq will be too busy fighting the Sunnis to keep Iran from sending in large numbers of troops to secure the southern oil fields as well as help Harkim fight the Sunnis and place Harkim in the postion of the new sole leader of Iraq.
Not, all Shia are pro-Iranian scum, but some like Harkim are in my view. Hell, Sadr has been less in bed with Iran then Harkim is.
Zarqawi has been killing Shia for the sole purpose of getting the Shia to kill Sunnis and spark a civil war which would turn the middle of the country into a war zone and allow him to keep a base for sometime in western Iraq.
Given another year we will be able to leave without having to worry about it falling into brutal civil war IMHO.
Are you from Middle Eastern descent?
Anyway we are winning this war and we will achieve the ultimate victory against the terrorist insurgency in Iraq. This terrorists insurgency will be almost dead if not completely dead by this spring.
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