Iraqi VP says police help prevent food, medicine from reaching Sunnis

[sabra]

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43333

Iraqi VP says police help prevent food, medicine from reaching Sunnis

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi national police has helped militias prevent medicine, food and fuel from getting to an area south of Baghdad, and even participated in slayings, Iraq’s vice president wrote in a letter to the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

In the Dec. 24 letter to Gen. George Casey, Tarik al-Hashemi, a Sunni, says residents of the Madaein district, which includes Salman Pak, “are victims of a scheme aiming to restore this district to be under Persian Iranian predominance,” specifically by an Iranian regime called Ali al-Shawki.

The regime has seized the local mosque and converted it into an “abattoir to slaughter innocent human beings on a sectarian basis,” al-Hashemi wrote to Casey, commander of Multi-National Forces-Iraq.

Since November 2006, the Iraqi national police’s “Wolf Brigade” has helped militias block deliveries of medicine, food, fuel, and even commit murder, al-Hashemi says. He lists nine demands, including the “evacuation” of the national police, delivery of aid and a “protective force consisting of the inhabitants of the area.”

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1. Oh suh-prise suh-prise! Who'd have thunk it????????

[Igel]

2. Which part?

That a Sunni politician would write things damning and insulting to his political rivals, the Shi'ites that he so loathes?

Or that Shi'ites would do things to hurt Sunnis?

The 'abattoir' business is a bit over the top, of course, but ony a bit. Much Arab talking smack is worse.

[Tempest]

3. Sunnis feel heavy hand of Shiite Police and Army Forces (Salman Pak)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/06/news/abuse.php

[Igel]

4. Of course they do.

A minor question was, Was the Sunni's rhetoric over the top? Probably.

A second minor question was, Did he have a point? To a considerable extent.

A more serious question was, Is anybody surprised? Hardly.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Too bad CNN's all agog about "abusive dating practices"

Why, you'd think that there's no other news but this FLUFF ... and Eddie Murphy's new movie, "Is it Rude or Not? :P

Worthless M$M. :grr: