[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Nov 19 08:31:10 PST 2006


Can someone explain the strategic rationale behind this?


> HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people south of
> Baghdad on Sunday by offering poor Shi'ite workers day laboring
> jobs and then detonating explosives packed inside his minibus as
> the crowd gathered around it.

Nihilism? Sectarianism? Making Iraq ungovernable? I don't get it.

Doug



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