Sunni vs Shiica

[N.O.R.F]

What is going on? Where are we headed?

 

Iraq vows action after lorry bomb kills 135

 

By Dean Yates

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government on Sunday renewed its pledge to crack down on militants after a massive suicide lorry bomb killed 135 people in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad.

 

Saturday's attack was the deadliest single bombing since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. It shocked even Iraqis accustomed to the relentless violence that threatens to plunge the country into full-scale sectarian civil war.

 

In fresh violence, a series of bomb attacks and drive-by shootings killed 16 people in Baghdad on Sunday, police and residents said.

 

Around 1,000 people have been killed across Iraq in the past week in suicide bombings, shootings and fighting between security forces and militants, according to figures compiled by Reuters from official sources.

 

"What did we do?" said one elderly man as he wailed in front of gutted shop fronts and homes in the Sadriya market on Sunday.

 

Rescue workers picked through blood-stained rubble looking for more bodies. A bulldozer was called in to clear debris from what was left of two and three-storey buildings.

 

Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed the blast on Saddam Hussein supporters and other Sunni militants.

 

"The government is determined to get rid of the terrorists and the outlaws. Yesterday's bombing is just more evidence of their evil," a senior government source said.

 

Maliki's office, referring to militants, said in a statement late on Saturday that the government would "cut off their roots, their sources and their supporters".

 

The prime minister vowed in January to launch a crackdown in the capital to crush insurgents who have defied attempts by his government to get control of security, but it has not yet begun.

 

Similar campaigns have failed in the past.

 

U.S. President George W. Bush is sending 21,500 reinforcements to Iraq, most earmarked for the Baghdad offensive, despite vocal opposition at home, especially among Democrats who now control both houses of Congress.

 

FRUSTRATION

 

Ordinary Iraqis are frustrated at the government's inability to curb violence. Shi'ites in Sadriya said the Mehdi Army militia of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr should handle security, not government forces.

 

"We are fed up with the government falling short in protecting us. After four years our blood still flows," said Abu Sajad, 37, a worker living in the Sadriya area.

 

The Pentagon has said the Mehdi Army poses a greater threat to peace in Iraq than Sunni Islamist al Qaeda. Sadr is a key political ally for Maliki.

 

More than 300 people were wounded in the Sadriya blast, caused when the bomber drove his lorry, packed with one tonne of explosives, into the crowded market.

 

An Interior Ministry source said efforts would be made to tighten control over roads leading into Baghdad, with attention paid to searching trucks.

 

The planned U.S.-Iraqi offensive in Baghdad is seen as a last-ditch effort to stem worsening bloodshed between minority Sunni Arabs and politically dominant majority Shi'ites.

 

Maliki's critics say an offensive last summer failed because the Iraqi army committed too few troops and because he was reluctant to confront the Mehdi Army.

 

(Additional reporting by Aseel Kami, Mariam Karouny and Ahmed Rasheed)

 

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[FatB]

its only gona get worse...

[Castro]

Around 1,000 people have been killed across Iraq in the past week in suicide bombings, shootings and fighting between security forces and militants, according to figures compiled by Reuters from official sources.

I know what havoc US and Iraqi 'government' forces wreak but who are these godless suicide bombers? What person can claim to be Muslim and do this every day? The suffering of ordinary Iraqis is unimaginable and beyond obscene walaahi. May Allah ease their suffering and remove the occupiers and all the death and destruction they've brought with them.

[Fabregas]

It's only a political struggle for power and dominance in the middle east.The sudden emergence of sunni warriors like Jordan, Saudi Arabia,Egypt etc...is a complete joke.These are the same countries that have been detaining and killing sunni ulema for years.They are the same people who's countries are used as bases(by America) to attack muslim countries.Know they are trying to politically manipulate the masses into fearing the new boogeyman "Iran".In order to carry out the dirty work of the Zionists and the Neocons.Some of the sunni warriorsin Iraq are the remanants of the anti islamic baathists members.

 

In Palestine the Americas and Sunni Arab states are heavily backing Fatah against the Iranian/Syrian backed Hamas.In Lebanon the Saudis and West are backing Sionaras Governent against the Shia dominated Hezbollah. This political wrangling will probably get worser as both sides continue to put money and resources to back thier allies.

 

Yesterday,in Iraq a policemans car blew up when he turned his siren on.I doubt these types of sophisticated attacks are caried out by the insurgents.There are probably Zarqawi types who are willing to blow themselves up.However i cannot believe that the mass detonations of one killo bombs in Baghdad markets are carried out by "sunni insurgents" are what the media is telling us. I remember a while back two British soldiers where caught with Arab clothing shooting Iraqi police officers, in which the Brits had to rescue them.You might call me a conspiracy theorist but i say there are outside agents who are setting up bombs in order to create sectarian violence all across the Middle East.A Shia- Sunni war will only suit one state in the Middle East.....go figure.....

[N.O.R.F]

I just saw a documentary on the Shia death squads. My stance has changed!

[Fabregas]

So what are your conclusions, are you tempted to Join the sunni insurgency?