[lbo-talk] Al-Sadr Bloc and Sunni Leaders in Consensus over Withdrawal of Foreign Troops

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/3/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Shi'is and Sunnis need the kind of leaders who are capable of letting
> > bygones be bygones and unite with enemies who killed their own mothers
> > and fathers.  That's the precondition for any strategic or even
> > tactical unity between the Sadr bloc and former Ba'athists.
>
> Yup, for sure, but isn't this the sort of wishful thinking you're
> always accusing Western leftists of?

I read this article with interest because it (disapprovingly) says
that the Sunni leaders gravitating toward the Sadr bloc include
"Hareth al-Zari, Adnan al-Dulaimi, and Saleh al-Mutlak," who are said
to "lead some of the hard-line Sunni groups, which also include
Baathists connected to the former Iraqi regime."  If true, very
interesting.
-- 
Yoshie
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