<html><body> <DIV>This seems to be consistent with the strategic goal of  Zarqawi organization which, at least according to Napoleoni's book Insurgent Iraq, has been to provoke a civil war between Iraqi Shia and Sunni.  I wonder how the other elements of the resistance are reacting - evidently large numbers of  Sunni mosques were torched in retaliation. SR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak@panix.com> <BR><BR>> <BR>> http://www.juancole.com/2006/02/shiite-protests-roil-iraq-tuesday-was.html <BR>> <BR>> Wednesday, February 22, 2006 <BR>> <BR>> <SNIP><BR>> <BR>> Tuesday was an apocalyptic day in Iraq. I am not normally exactly <BR>> sanguine about the situation there. But the atmospherics are very, <BR>> very bad, in a way that most Western observers will miss. <BR><BR>> Both Sunnis and Americans will be blamed. Very bad. <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>