Some unpleasant ground truth from Iraq: The great divide by Nir Rosen |
| Published: June 9, 2008, 7:38 am |
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Some unpleasant ground truth from Iraq....http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080605/REVIEW/708177227/1043&profile=1043The great divideNir RosenThe National, DubaiJune 05. 2008Five years after a war allegedly launched to liberate Iraq's Shiite majority, American forces have been bombing Shiite neighbourhoods in Basra and Baghdad while their snipers and tanks remain on the ground in places like Sadr City.Iraq seems to have emerged from the worst phase of its civil war, but the victorious Shiite factions have turned their arms on one another in a fight over the spoils, battling for political power in advance of the upcoming provincial elections.But as the Americans attempt to secure an agreement with the government of Nouri al Maliki to legalise the long-term presence of troops in Iraq, Muqtada al Sadr and his followers remain a formidable obstacle. Whether or not Sadr has been weakened by the clashes in Basra and Sadr City, marginalising the Sadrists will be almost impossible, for they [ Full article ] |
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