US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia (Iranian fighters)

I hope there is some way Congress or the People can stop this monster we have unleashed.

time to attack venezuela!

To be stuck inside of Baquba with the Tehran blues again...

I've heard Iraqi Sunnis like to call a lot of the Shiites "Iranians" because of a claim they immigrated to Iraq from Iran and therefore aren't "real Iraqis". Therefore the Sunnis are a higher percentage of "real Iraqis" than the UN says. That sort of thing.

So who knows at this point

I've heard Sunni Arabs in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states refer to any Shiites as an "Iranian". The implication being that Shiite Arabs don't have pure Arab ethnicity.

...and they picked up Iranian accents there.

I'm highly skeptical of claims that Iran has fighters in Iraq. They don't need fighters -- Iran largely controls the political system.

...One local resident, Abdul Hadi al-Dulaimi, said that the village, which is mostly Sunni Arab, was being raided by Shiite policemen working with militiamen to take revenge for a recent suicide bombing. American troops were siding with the Shiites and had deployed aircraft and ground troops, Mr. Dulaimi said. The fighting raged into the night.

An American military spokesman in Baghdad, Maj. William Willhoite, said in the evening that "there is something going on up there," but had few further details.
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Militiamen drove into Daliqiya looking for revenge today, said Mr. Dulaimi, 55, a date farmer. About 30 to 35 families live in the village, most of them Sunni Arabs from the Dulaimi or Ani tribes. The area is thick with date palm groves and orange orchards.

The fighting in the morning lasted for three hours, with Iraqi policemen aiding the militiamen, Mr. Dulaimi said in a telephone interview. Many of the villagers sent their wives and children outside the area during a pause in the fighting. The Shiite militiamen and Iraqi security forces returned in the evening with American forces and continued the attack, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/world/middleeast/29cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1151640000&en=2a6b59efb376adf9&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Bad business for the US to get into, too