“It’s just everyone fighting everyone. Anarchy.”

[bigtree]

Thursday, 13 July, 2006

Guns galore as anarchy stalks Baghdad

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The US ambassador to Iraq said this week that sectarian bloodletting between Shias and the formerly dominant Sunni minority of Saddam Hussain was now a greater threat to Iraq than the three-year-old Sunni insurgency against the security forces.

The top US military commander shed some of Washington’s usual reticence about sectarian labelling on Wednesday by saying Shia militia “death squads” were behind much of the violence in the capital that has left scores dead this past week.

Some observers fear that a third, even more intractable, phase of the conflict has been reached, beyond insurgency and beyond even combat between organised armed groups: “What we’re now seeing has no shape whatever,” a Western diplomat said.

“It’s just everyone fighting everyone. Anarchy.”

While there are tens of thousands of newly US-trained troops and police on the streets, there are certainly hundreds of thousands of automatic weapons in the hands of Baghdad’s 7mn people, like Seif, so the potentially bloody consequences of anarchy are clear to all.

report: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=97187&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

[Ringo84]

1. Uh Oh

Better put on my Blinders For Bush (tm). This is just more lib'rul MSM nonsense. :sarcasm:
Ringo

[bluerum]

2. Yeah - but at least it's not civil war.

[Master Mahon]

3. Yeah, it's just part of a 'global struggle'

:+

[Rex]

4. I take it back, not even a million troops could control Iraq.

Too late now I'm afraid. Sounds like Iraq is falling into anarchy from lack of infrastructure.

[lpbk2713]

5. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

Yessiree Bob. The BFEE has brought democracy to the Middle East.