How do you stop an insurgency without inflaming it?
Without any crackdown on the Shia militias, Bolani, the Shia interior minister, issued an arrest warrant for the top Sunni coalition leader, Harith al-Dhari.
This is a big step in the politics of the civil war. If this warrant stands and is carried out, it will spawn even more bombings and attacks and more Shia death squad killings in response.
I hope those 2,200 hundred marines called into Anbar are ready.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the head of the influential Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars.....
Al-Dhari is the top leader for the country's Sunni minority, and the move against him was likely to inflame sectarian violence already ravaging Baghdad and central Iraq"
This is a big step in the politics of the civil war. If this warrant stands and is carried out, it will spawn even more bombings and attacks and more Shia death squad killings in response.
I hope those 2,200 hundred marines called into Anbar are ready.
posted by mikevotes at
4:49 PM
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Notice that cracking down on shia militiamen isn't one of the four points in the brand spanking new bush Plan for Victory that the Guardian reported on today?
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Reality-Based Educator, at 7:44 PM
Oh yeah. If you do a page search down for "stability" you'll run across a number of posts over the last week where I posit that the next move will be to stand aside and let the Shia "dominate."
We're going to commit the ultimate realist evil by allowing the Shia death squads to roam.
(And, I think the Guardian piece is a trial balloon to see if they can give it one more go before "Stability first."
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:05 PM
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