At any rate, a generous reading of what I wrote would include a bit of irony on the part of the reader. Let me spell it out for you: isn't it ironic that supposedly propagandist sources turn out to be better journalism than the unchecked trash at Reuters, BBC, etc.?
As for real news coverage, for example, see Teheran Times coverage of the recent events in Najaf and Karbala just to see the difference in how they refuse to come to conclusions that aren't supported by any evidence. The Sunni theory of the bombings is attributed properly to the BBC reporter from which everyone else lifted it. But at least the Teheran Times bothers to say it is just that: the assertions of one reporter. Al Jazeera, btw, did an even better job, it left out such assertions simply because NO EVIDENCE has been presented that would support them. Secular, pro-Allawi Shia are as capable of what happened in Najaf and Kerbala as anyone else. Why believe otherwise til some evidence is presented, but then again, we'll die waiting for such evidence, won't we?
Also, I believe it's possible that pro-Iranian factions in Iraq might be behind a lot of the violence in Shia areas simply because they DO WANT a civil war between Sunni and Shia Arabs. OTOH, I can't put this beyond the US and their Allawi puppet regime or Israel or the Kurds either.
This is an issue where Iranian, US and Israeli interests converge somewhat and have long worked to counter a unified Iraq. The Sunni insurgency has absolutely no reason whatsoever of starting a Sunni-on-Shia civil war, whereas it would serve the purposes of Israel, some interests in Iran and the US--and the Kurds, too--very well.
The Sunni insurgency wholeheartedly supports an anti-US but also anti-Iranian Shia insurgency, such as that led by al-Sadr. Both movements want the US out now, but they also want peaceful but non-hegemonic relations with the Iranian giant to the east. They are Iraqi Arab nationalists above all else. The Iranians have even accused al-Sadr of being leftover wreckage of the Saddam Hussein era Iraq simply because he is an Arab nationalist who wants a unified Iraq and those seeking to assert foreign control OUT. If anything, the US-installed Allawi regime and the Iranian-backed Sistani are the real wreckage of the last part of the Saddam Hussein era.
Not one url Mikie, beat that.
Fugazy.
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