Good Stuff Inside Iraq
Posted by Curt on January 28, 2007 at 9:30 PM
Includes comments about our friends on the left selectively cherry picking the news that fits the story that they wish to tell.....
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Najaf attack was a plot to kill al-Sistani, CNN reports.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and other top Shiite religious figures were the apparent targets of an insurgent plot thwarted in an intense battle near the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf, Iraqi officials said.
… The possible death of al-Sistani “would really plunge Iraq and the possibly the rest of the region into a bloodbath,” said Vali Nasr, author of “The Shia Revival,” a recent book on the rise of the sect.
“Ayatollah Sistani is the most revered and the most followed Shia spiritual leader,” Nasr said. “He is like the Shia pope. Shias follow him across the Middle East in religious affairs, and his death at the hands of the insurgents would be of enormous symbolic value.”
Iraqi officials said a force of about 400 to 600 insurgents planned to seize control of Najaf and the surrounding province.
Exactly who and why remain puzzling questions, given that weird report about Mahdi-happy zealots that included both Sunni and Shia. From a cynical, murderous realpolitikische (Iranian) point of view, it creates a bloodbath in which the Sunnis and the U.S. lose, and the Iranians emerge triumphant. So maybe that makes the most sense. From an al Qaeda/Sunni point of view … which, as we’ve learned is also an Iranian pro-chaos point of view … it provokes open warfare which the most extreme Sunnis believe is their own chance at survival in what is otherwise Shiite-dominated state.
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