lowing wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/03/iraq.main/index.html
Nothing like blowing up several hundred of your own, to show your hatred and the problems that the American presence has in the ME. Good job! Ya really know how to govern yourselves. They don't need help now do they?
Ask yourself why the Shī‘a Muslims weren't bothering with tactics like these (on any significant scale) when Saddam was in control. You won't come to the conclusion that it is on moral grounds or that are somehow more ethical when it comes to tactics, since after these bombings Sunni neighbourhoods are often randomly shelled. That's right, random mortar fire right into the middle of populated civilian centres together with random killings of 20 or 30 people at a time by Shī‘a police and militia in retaliation to the bombings (which are in retaliation to the shellings/killing). Neither side is right, but until there is an even handed crackdown on both sides then it will carry on until the remaining Sunnis have been forced into ghettos (many areas have already been cleansed) and wiped out.
They say the Sunnis fire mortars too, but this is quite unlikely (edit: or at least unwise) as the Shī‘a police and militia have free reign and checkpoints all over the Sunni neighbourhoods, and firing mortars would get you killed or worse within minutes.
In the hours after the explosion, Shiite and Sunni mortar teams traded fire across the darkened city. Two people were killed and 20 wounded in one predominantly Sunni district.
Most of the Shī‘a mortar fire kills civilians, and there was one incident where 5 school children were killed from repeated deliberate targetting.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=13256Despite the fact that all the evidence points towards government authorised militias who are working
for the government, the media insists on calling them insurgents despite the fact that they are
not fighting to change the status quo, but enforce it. See Part 2 of the Iraqi Death Squads report on Dispatches for witness testimony on this often overlooked detail.
Last edited by UON (2007-02-03 15:50:49)