Iran says US incites Sunni-Shia strife in Iraq

[ECH1969]

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s highest authority, said on Friday the United States was encouraging sectarian strife in Iraq.

Iraq has been gripped by violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims since the bombing of a revered Shia Muslim shrine in February. The United Nations estimates 100 Iraqis die violently every day.

“Making Sunnis and Shias suspicious of one another ... is the policy of the Americans in Iraq,” Khamenei told worshippers at Friday prayers, broadcast live on state television.

Worshippers chanted “Death to America”

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/October/middleeast_October231.xml§ion=middleeast

[Delphinus]

1. Unfortunately,

what he says is true.

It is also unfortunate that they had to chant "Death to America".

[Horse with no Name]

2. There was a time not so long ago

I would have never believed that.
Sadly, today, I do.
Fuck Bush for making me have to believe the words of one despot over another.:mad:

[stillcool]

3. inciting strife...

in this country too.

[MrPrax]

4. Same as Afghanistan...

Create chaos and partition...or the "divide and wreck" strategy. The intent was always to destroy these societies, not rebuild them...since when have we even given a fuck about womens' rights, or torture or psychotic tyrants running our client states...never came up before in dozens upon dozens of examples in the last fifty years...

SARAH CHAYES: It was really this story. It was, I watched -- there were U.S. Special Forces that were embedded in a group, a kind of tribal militia, which was directed to put pressure on Kandahar from the south. President Karzai also had U.S. Special Forces with him. He was coming down toward Kandahar from the north. The Taliban surrendered to him. They left. Al-Qaeda left the city. The city was in the hands of President Karzai and his chosen representative, and then these U.S. Special Forces urged this warlord to take the city by force from President Karzai.

AMY GOODMAN: Wait, now, explain how this went down and how you understood what was happening. You were on the border with this --?

SARAH CHAYES: I was on the border. I was not with this group, but I was on the border, and I was listening to the radio, where a lot of this played out, and I was speaking to people who were coming back across the border, and I knew that President Karzai had designated a certain person whose name is Mullah Naqib to be governor of Kandahar. And then, suddenly this warlord is in the city. And then, there’s this huge and angry standoff, which is being played out on the airwaves of the BBC actually, of their Pashto Service, and this warlord is saying, “No, I’m going to be governor of Kandahar.” And I knew there was something strange. And eventually that’s what happened. And Mullah Naqib basically pled old age and said, “Oh, I’m too old.” And I thought, “That’s not right.” You know.

AMY GOODMAN: The Karzai appointee for governor.

SARAH CHAYES: The Karzai appointee, that’s right, said, “Okay, this other guy is going to be governor. I’m too old to be governor.” And I knew that something had happened. And then I rode into the city maybe two days after this with somebody who had been with this warlord, so I asked him, “Well, how did it go? How did you guys happen to go and take Kandahar?” And He was a very young kid, you know, so he’s kind of all excited and enthusiastic. You know -- Speed! Speed! -- we went up the road, you know. And then I said, “Well, what about the Americans who were with you?” He said, “The Americans? They told us to do it.” I thought, “You have to be kidding me.”

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And more to the point, don't you think the Bush monarchy was COUNTING on it?

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