Signs That Shiites and Sunnis Are Joining to Battle Americans - 4/9/2004

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Published on Friday, April 9, 2004 by the New York Times
Signs That Shiites and Sunnis Are Joining to Battle Americans
by Jeffrey Gettleman

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 8 — When the United States invaded Iraq a year ago, one of its chief concerns was preventing a civil war between Shiite Muslims, who make up a majority in the country, and Sunni Muslims, who held all the power under Saddam Hussein.

Now the fear is that the growing uprising against the occupation is forging a new and previously unheard of level of cooperation between the two groups — and the common cause is killing Americans.

"We have orders from our leader to fight as one and to help the Sunnis," said Nimaa Fakir, a 27-year-old teacher and foot soldier in the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia. "We want to increase the fighting, increase the killing and drive the Americans out. To do this, we must combine forces."

This new Shiite-Sunni partnership was flourishing in Baghdad on Thursday. Convoys of pickup trucks with signature black Shiite flags flapping from their bumpers hauled sacks of grain, flour, sugar and rice into Sunni mosques.



I am starting to think this civil war stuff the MSM is pushing is just more smoke and mirrors. We haven't heard about any confirmed battles between Shiites and Sunnis. Only a lot of hand wringing about a possible civil war. I will admit some entities would like nothing better than a civil war in Iraq. Bush and his minions are on the top of the list.

Sustained mutual assassination goes a long way. Maybe it's not civil war per se, but it's ethnic cleansing.

What we hear and see is what our military allows us to hear and see.

What are those death squads we trained doing in Iraq these days? Any ideas?

What about the 50,000 mercenaries we have there? What are they doing?

I think the Iraqis are on to our games. Americans aren't. But the Iraqi people do know whats up.

All Americans know is that a puppy was bitten by a alligator. Another blond girl went missing. And wasn't the American Idol winner dreamy? Thats it.

Iraqis are over there living in this hell we have created for them. No puppies. No alligators. No missing blond women. No American Idol. No nothing. Except death and misery. Thats what we gave them. Why would they kill each other for what we did to them?

Thats why there hasn't been any battles between the two.

Don

Just like Rove does for Georgie.