[Torie]

It has not been verified, and has been denied, in an article (one of many recently) otherwise replete with civil war talk, and rather near apocalyptic, and perhaps overdone, verbiage. The squib reads as follows:

"Rumors of yesterday's atrocities included one report of six Sunni men who emerged from services at a Baghdad mosque and were doused with kerosene and burned alive. But two Baghdad imams, in an interview, denied that the incident took place."

As I said, the issue at hand is dealing with a perceived incipient, and perhaps now not so incipient, civil war. I suspect a major change of course may well be near at hand, probably towards some de facto quasi partition. If it happens, it will happen rather quickly, if the Iraqi forces start dissolving de jure into sectarian factions.

I hope it does happen, I wish it does not happen, and if it does happen, it will be a tragedy. Bush's long pass towards remaking the middle east for the better will be recorded by history has an interception.

[gusopol3]

thanks for 1092. the little icing of the cake that "Iraqi security forces stood by doing nothing" shows how hard some propagandists are working and how little editorial filtering is going on

[FreeReign]

"Rumors of yesterday's atrocities included one report of six Sunni men who emerged from services at a Baghdad mosque and were doused with kerosene and burned alive. But two Baghdad imams, in an interview, denied that the incident took place."

Yes, I saw the report yesterday that the six were doused and burned and that security forces stood by and watched. All the MSM ran with it.

This is the first I'm seeing of a denial.