Civil War – Moon of Alabama

August 24, 2005

Civil War

But not as expected: Christopher Allbritton reports

Earlier this evening, Najaf police units, led by a Badr Organization commander, descended on Moqtada’s office in Najaf, located on the main street approaching the Imam Ali Shrine. In the clash, Moqtada’s office, only four meters from the shrine, was burned to the ground, according to Abu Hazzim, who worked in the Najaf office and fled for his life to Sadr City.

Further fights between SCIRI and al-Sadr followers have started.

Next al-Sadr will join with the Sunni, the Kurds with the Turkmen, the Salfists with the Dawa party, the Persians with the Saudi – and all of them will join against "The West" – whatever that may be.

Huntington’s wet dreams finally arrive.

Posted by b on August 24, 2005 at 22:05 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Sadr is Iraq’s only hope. He’ll be burned before the year is out.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Aug 24 2005 22:24 utc | 1

Let’s be honest here: Sadr is a so fundamentalist he would make Falwell’s head spin, back in the good ol’ U.S. of A. But, he does seem to have integrity and be less buy-offable than the other leeches in Iraq.
I find it interesting that in primarily representing the poor Shiites of Baghdad, those without even hope of oil royalties (which we know will never trickle down much below the neocons, the sellout politicians and their cronies), his natural allies are the death spiraling fortunes of the once elite Sunnies.
What’s most refreshing is that he stands oppossed to the Western influenced breakup along ethnic lines.

Posted by: Malooga | Aug 24 2005 23:21 utc | 2

How do you spell Lebanon
(except this one may go regional)

Posted by: ed_finnerty | Aug 25 2005 1:26 utc | 3

I think the Iraqi Defense Force just lost about half its members today.

Posted by: biklett | Aug 25 2005 4:00 utc | 4

So I guess it’s more than a cavil war.

Posted by: biklett | Aug 25 2005 4:07 utc | 5

Well, since the very notion of a unified “Iraq” was a Western (British( creation, and since the breakup will unleash a regional firestorm, do you really think that the ethnic breakup is “Western-sponsored”? Iraq is an artifical state created by the colonialsits. What a mess.

Posted by: Brian Miller | Aug 25 2005 5:39 utc | 6

this is Shias fighting with each other. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, but is political. Sadr rejects federalism along with the Sunni’s because he’s a nationalist. He can nix the constituion, and is hated for that amongst the pro-occupation Shia parties.
Sadr’s great-grandfather led the fight against the British, as well.

Posted by: folkers | Aug 25 2005 7:20 utc | 7

Imad Khadduri’s Free Iraq blog
gives some useful background on this.
Example:

The ‘massacres of the innocents’ have indeed outraged many Iraqis for it is slowly sinking in that these ‘acts’ are not perpetrated by the Iraqi Resistance but by an assortment of :
– Allawi’s CIA trained ‘Wolf Brigades’ under the CIA-paid Shahwani , head of the ‘Iraqi intelligence agency’ and his Langley CIA-trained ‘Iraqi’ mercenaries,
– With their insidious ‘operative head’ CIA agent James Steel of the ‘Salvador Option’ assignment,
– The Shi’ite’s Badir Brigades
– As well as by the below-the-radar Israeli Mossad (article in Arabic) killing teams.

The original also contains links to Arabic documentation. I’d be interested in seeing a translation of such documents.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Aug 25 2005 8:27 utc | 8

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