[lbo-talk] AP: Destruction of mosque pushes Iraq towards all-out civil war

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 23 11:04:24 PST 2006


Colin Brace wrote:


>On 2/23/06, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > B. wrote:
>> > SAMARRA, Iraq - Insurgents posing as police
>
>> Right... insurgents posing as police... hang on while I finish laughing.
>>
>> Try SAS or some other task force that finally managed to get a mission
>> accomplished without get killed and buried in unmarked shallow graves.
>>
>> I call it destabilization by external forces... SAS or indy mercenaries
>> would be my two most likely guesses.
>
>You aren't the only one thinking along these lines:
>
>"Instead Ayatollah Khamenei blamed the intelligence services of the US
>and Israel for being behind the bombs in Samarra."
>
>full: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article347140.ece

Why would they want to do this? How are US and/or Israeli interests served by civil war in Iraq? It makes no sense.

But I don't really get why AQ or The Resistance or whatever wants Iraq in civil war either. What's the point?

Doug



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