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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, October 14, 2005

Iraq.

This is from a Knight-Ridder piece by Tom Lasseter. He spent a week riding with an Iraqi army group. Major Ghilan lost two sons and a daughter to a "Sunni" suicide bomb. Now, his mostly Shia unit is responsible for security in mostly Sunni Western Baghdad.

Ghilan is a major in the Iraqi army and a Shiite Muslim, the sect that makes up some 60 percent of Iraq's population. Now, more than ever, the grieving father says he wants to hunt down and kill not only Sunni guerrilla fighters but also Sunnis who give those fighters shelter and support. By that, he means killing most Sunnis in Iraq.

"There are two Iraqs; it's something that we can no longer deny," Ghilan said. "The army should execute the Sunnis in their neighborhoods so that all of them can see what happens, so that all of them learn their lesson."


Tell me again about a peaceful future Iraq?

(note: I pulled this version from the Miami Herald. It is behind a subscription wall, but if you click on the www.bugmenot.com link to the right you can get a working password. It's a newsjunkie's dream.)

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