Friday, January 19, 2007

The Coming Baghdad Bloodbath

In it's ongoing surge to increase division, animosity and fear the US is set to campaign across Baghdad, in fact the new offensive might already be underway. Although that link shows fierce fighting with Sunnis, this time the brunt of the occupation's terror crusade is going to be the Shiite muslims, and they know it. Leading cleric Moqtada al-Sadr got his family out of the way of the coming siege:

"In an interview with Mr Sadr, published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica today, the cleric said 400 of his men had already been arrested.
"For this reason, I have moved my family to a secure location. I even have had a will drawn up, and I move continuously in a way that only few can know where I am," he was quoted as saying."


The goal of the invaders was and is to pit factions in Iraq against one another. By setting one group against another the US gains from civil strife rather than face concerted opposition from nationalists, while corporations rape Iraqi resources and assets. “Several [Iraqi] politicians [in the puppet government] have actually suggested that the U.S. is involved in the sectarian killings in Iraq; encouraging sectarian strife with the aim of weakening the Iraqi nation and destabilizing the country, which would justify extending its military presence there”, reported Al-Jazeera on 04 October 2005. If the various factions won't oblige and go at each other's throats the warmongers will not so gently nudge them in the right direction. For years now false flag death squads and bombings were intended to stoke sectarian hatred and fighting. Probably the most egregious act that the conquistadors committed was blowing up that beautiful al-Askari Mosque in Samarra. By destroying that revered Shiite site followed by a few Sunni mosques, it was mission accomplished.

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Right from the very start of Iraq's conquest it was apparent what the strategy was going to be. Rumsfeld's boy, Paul Bremer, dismantled the standing army and replaced it with a force made up almost exclusively of Shiias and Kurds. Then all of a sudden there were deadly attacks on innocent civilians back and forth on Sunni and Shiia neighborhoods and mosques, something that was never seen in the country before the invasion. Proof that sinister black op forces are forcing this bloodbath is everywhere; google Haj Haidar for just one story.

Proof also that the fascists have no commitment to anything in Iraq other than tearing the country apart, stealing it's resources and squatting in their new shiny conquistador castles is the shifting nature of who the enemy is supposed to be. Forget 'Al Qaeda', that phony will o' the wisp CIA front. Basically if a news report mentions that name I automatically assume CIA activity is involved whether it's a fake video or a staged bit of violence. Up to now the occupation has had it's hands full with fighting the Sunni resistance. After summoning Cheney to Saudi Arabia in November it's apparent america's sugar daddy wanted Codpiece to switch his attention from the sheiks' Sunni allies to the Shiia. Maliki, his initially unhappy Shiia puppet, finally agreed not to try to interfere with this new round of warfare, and has pretended to order a crackdown on Shiite militants.

Another sign the occupiers are determined to pit all the various factions in Iraq against each other is the brilliant move to bring Kurdish pesh merga units into Baghdad neighborhoods to break down doors. The Kurds think this is insane. The city's Sunnis and Shiia don't think that'll go so well either:

"I advise the Kurdish people to apply pressure on their leaders to prevent this step," said Mohammed Daini, a lawmaker with a major Sunni bloc. Kurdish forces, he said, "will face firm resistance from both the Sunnis and the Shiites."
Sheik Abdul Razzaq Naddawi, an aide to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, agreed that Kurdish troops would not be welcome.
"The Kurds, frankly speaking, consider themselves superior to other Iraqis," he said. "Would they allow troops from the middle or the south to arrive in Kurdistan?" he asked. "Their borders are closed, and they are practically independent
."

I swear you need a scorecard.

So all the indications are pointing to a drastic increase of violence in the coming months with Little Boots pouring gasoline on his smoldering shitheap. Since not many of his proposed surge of troops are available and won't be for some time I'm sure we'll see a generous use of air power in the crowded Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad as the occupiers go after Al Sadr's Mahdi army.
It could be a repeat of what happened in Fallujah three years ago when Sunnis were the target.

We can expect more wanton destruction of mosques and shrines as the fascists delight in advancing their clash of civilizations. After all, what better way to kickstart a wider middle east conflict than to start another proxy war with Iran?

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