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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 04:36 PM
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Iraq Constitution drafters killing inside job
Militiamen tied to Iraqi government involved in killings, Sunni says

By Tom Lasseter and Alaa al Baldawy, Knight Ridder Newspapers
50 minutes ago


BAGHDAD, Iraq - A top Sunni politician on Sunday said that militia members with ties to the Iraqi government were involved in the assassinations last week of two Sunnis involved with drafting the nation's constitution and said that he did not trust the Shiite-dominated government to conduct an honest investigation.

The statements by Saleh al-Mutlak, a member of Iraq's constitutional committee and a spokesman for the influential Sunni group the Iraqi Committee for National Dialogue, came as a suicide bomber struck a police station and nearby Shiite charity clinic in Baghdad, killing more than 20 and wounding another 30.

Both the bombing - the killing of Shiites by a presumably Sunni bomber - and the accusations of government-backed militias involved in the killing of Sunni politicians underscored the ongoing sectarian divide that has hampered the Iraq's political process and left thousands dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050724/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_wa
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 04:42 PM
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1. Everyone together now....CIVIL WAR
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 04:44 PM
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2. That's what the US have been working for - the division of Sunni and Shia
who normally have good relationships, tribes being much more important and oven including both Sunni and shia tribe members. Divide et impera.

I can't prove it but I'm absolutely convinced that for a lot if not most of the kidnappings, murders and car bombs not Iraqis, but Americans are responsible.

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Remember fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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