Iraqi Sunni Claims 'Genocide Campaign'

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Source: ap



Iraqi Sunni Claims 'Genocide Campaign'


Sunday August 12, 2007 7:16 PM

By STEVEN R. HURST

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's most senior Sunni politician issued a desperate appeal Sunday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an ``unprecedented genocide campaign'' by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. The U.S. military reported five American soldiers were killed, apparently lured into an al-Qaida trap.

Adnan al-Dulaimi said ``Persians'' and ``Safawis,'' Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni Arab regimes.

``It is a war that has started in Baghdad and they will not stop there but will expand it to all Arab lands,'' al-Dulaimi wrote in an impassioned broadside e-mailed to The Associated Press.

Sunni Arab regimes throughout the Middle East fear the growing influence of Iran's Shiite theocracy with radical groups like Hezbollah and Hamas as well as the Syrian regime. Raising the specter of Iranian power reaching the Arab doorstep, unlikely in the near-term, betrayed al-Dulaimi's desperation. .......




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How long can the WH stall?-or make deals?

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1. our president and congress are enablers here nt

[Vattel]

2. excuse my ignorance

if I'm mistaken, but isn't Syria largely Sunni? If so, why would Sunni Arabs fear Syria?

[Igel]

3. Because Syria's Iran's ally, in many respects

(right down to a mutual defense pact). Aiding the suspicion is that the ruling cohort in Syria are Alawite, which means they're a sort of Shi'ite.

At least that's the easy answer. It may also be that much of the violence in W. Anbar is primarily done by the ISI folk, many of them supported by foreigners that get to W. Anbar through Syria. But in this case, I prefer the easy answer. The Dulaimi clan has had more than enough ISI supporters amongst their ranks.