Why the resistance will increase

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BAKU - Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset Saddam Hussein is - already was - totally beside the point. Only in the past few months have we learned the extent to which the Saddam system sub-contracted a great deal of decision-making to different Iraqi elite - from tribal sheikhs to businessmen and Sunni and Wahhabi religious leaders.

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The most popular political party on the sprawling campus of Baghdad University is not the widely-despised Ahmad Chalabi's neo-conservative-backed Iraqi National Congress. It is the Iraq Islamist Party.

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Online that avalanches of people are just waiting for June 2004 to see what kind of government the Americans will allow, and if they are not satisfied, then they will join the resistance. But there are also many people - Sunni and Shi'ite - who fear that some Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) members may turn violent, afraid of losing power. Rival Kurdish chieftains Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani - both on the IGC - keep their strong peshmerga private armies. Chalabi has his own CIA-trained army, complete with American weapons. According to new Iraqi policemen who defected to Amman, Jordan, the bulk of the new Iraqi police is also inclined to join the resistance.

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL20Ak01.html

Is a civil war looming? This is a must read for those interested in the Middle East.

[sasquatch]

1. I sad this last Sunday when they caught that goofy bastard

The people that were reluctant to join their groups freedom fighting movement because it might allow Saddam and the Baathist to take over, no longer have that fear. Now since that's no longer a possibility a lot of people will be volunteering for hero position's in their people's hearts.

[Atman]

2. From the headline, I thought you were talking about

domestic politics.

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3. Sorry soul brother!

[Dhalgren]

4. Truely excellent article!

It makes you sad and mad that there isn't this kind of intelligent, well researched and well writen journalism taking place in this country. It causes dispair to think that we as a people really have no chance, primarily because we have no information. The blood bath in Iraq has not yet started and most Americans think it's all but over.

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5. I agree - 'Tis hard to see and understand now, but Iraq will overcome and

rebuild itself into a stronger nation after a devastating time of chaos, while the U.S. may be heading down the road of bankruptcy and decay. If corruption and change of foreign policy is ignored.

Lot of room for thought after reading this article.