[lbo-talk] Juan Cole Interview on Democracy Now today

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Mon Sep 25 11:05:50 PDT 2006


You can listen or read the full transcript at:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/25/1318238

Maria

from the transcript:

JUAN COLE: Well, there's a behind the scenes, late at night in the alleyways, a civil war going on between Shiites, Iraqis, and Sunni Arabs. And this is a war that has many dimensions. It is a turf war. It's about ethnically cleansing neighborhoods, controlling territory. It's about rivalry over control of resources, including petroleum smuggling and antiquities smuggling, other kinds of smuggling. It is a political contest, to position themselves for when the Americans leave. But it is, it's certainly at this rate of death a civil war.

AMY GOODMAN: Civil war.

JUAN COLE: Without any doubt.

AMY GOODMAN: Unqualified.

JUAN COLE: Unqualified.



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