Posted on 12/21/2011 2:49:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Sheikh Ali Hatem Sleiman al-Duleimi.
Two leading members of Iraq's largest and most powerful Sunni tribe have warned of imminent sectarian chaos in the wake of the US withdrawal, claiming that the government of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is promoting an anti-Sunni agenda.
The sheikhs, leaders of the highly influential Duleimi tribe, both insist that Sunnis have been increasingly marginalised over the past year to the point where they now have little input into affairs of state in post-US Iraq.
Their warnings come as Iraq's vice-president, Tariq al-Hashimi, defended himself over claims in an arrest warrant issued for him that he had used his guards to act as hit squads to target political rivals and had ordered a recent car bombing near the Iraqi parliament.
The dramatic allegations against one of the highest ranking Sunni figures in government have sharply raised the stakes in Iraq. The crisis risks unravelling a fragile power-sharing deal among Shia, Sunni and Kurdish blocs that have struggled to overcome tensions since sectarian slaughter drove Iraq to the edge of civil war in the years after Saddam Hussein fell in 2003.
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With the Americans gone, there's no one to check Maliki now
The administration’s response in a word? “unexpected’.
Vaporizing the whole Mideast seems to be the only answer!
lol
I think anyone with the common sense God gave a flea would have seen this coming
And I quote: “it’s Bushes fault”.
It’s a damned shame. Everything that our troops accomplished there will be overturned in a matter of months. How long before Iranian military advisors are in Baghdad?
Obama blew it!
And hussein is already dancing over their graves.
nobama’s WTF foreign policy (supported by the toady hclintoon) is proving itself. Great leadership, nobama and hclintoon...you Uber-Putzs.
And the legacies just keep coming.
An administration that was really interested in Iraq and what happens there would have been able to cut a deal. We needed a statesman...what we got was an empty suit.
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