Entered into the database on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 @ 12:45:59 MST
In Iraq, things are going swimmingly for the Straussian neocons.
“A large explosion heavily damaged the golden dome of one of Iraq’s
most famous Shiite shrines Wednesday, spawning mass protests and triggering
reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques,” reports the Associated
Press. “It was the third major attack against Shiite targets this
week and threatened to stoke sectarian tensions. Shiite leaders called for calm,
but militants attacked Sunni mosques and a gunfight broke out between Shiite
militiamen and guards at the offices of a Sunni political party in Basra. About
500 soldiers were sent to Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad to prevent clashes
between Shiites and Sunnis, Army Capt. Jassim al-Wahash said.” It makes
absolutely no sense for Sunnis to bomb Shia mosques; this would be akin to Baptists
bombing Catholic churches. Sectarian violence, dividing Iraqi society,
does not serve Iraqis, either Sunni or Shia. It does, however, serve the occupation
forces and also begins to realize the plan sketched out in Oded Yinon’s
“A
Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties” (the balkanization
of Arab and Muslim society and culture), an objective shared by Jabotinsky Likudites
and Straussian neocons. “No group claimed responsibility for the 6:55 a.m. attack on the Askariya
shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, but suspicion fell on Sunni extremist
groups such as al-Qaida in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The shrine contains
the tombs of two revered Shiite imams, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.”
Of course, it stands to reason the bombing was carried out by “al-Qaida
in Iraq” and the dead Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in other words it was a black
op carried out by the Anglo-American occupation forces, designed specifically
to create religious violence, the worst sort. Only vicious and crazed Muslims
would blow up the remains of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad—or American,
British, and Israeli intelligence operatives or their double agent Arab lunatics,
or crazies incited by Rumsfeld’s Proactive Preemptive Operations Group
(P2OG), designed to “stimulate” terrorist reaction. Recall the remarks of an anonymous senior military officer on April
22, 2004, declaring a spate of bombings in Basra had “all the hallmarks”
of “al-Qaeda.” Several months later, two British “undercover
soldiers” wearing “traditional Arab headscarves” were caught
red-handed by Iraqi National Guard “driving a booby trapped car loaded
with ammunition.” Michel
Chossudovsky: “Has the US [and Britain] created as part of a covert
intelligence operation, a bogus ‘resistance movement’ made up of
its own Al Qaeda sponsored ‘terrorists’? Their suicide attacks target
Iraqi civilians rather than the US military. The suicide bombings tend to encourage
sectarian divisions not only within Iraq, but throughout the entire Middle East.
They serve Washington’s interests. They contribute to undermining the
development of a broader resistance movement uniting Shia, Sunni, Kurds and
Christians against the illegal occupation of the Iraqi homeland.” Good questions, all. Of course, we shouldn’t expect the corporate
media to go there.
