Petraeus: ' This Is a Serious Blow'

[babylonsister]

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3274466&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

'This Is a Serious Blow'
Charles Gibson Interviews Gen. David Petraeus After the Samarra Mosque Attack

June 13, 2007


In an exclusive interview with ABC's Charles Gibson, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, called today's attack on a holy Shiite shrine in Baghdad a "serious blow" to the military effort in the region and the work of al Qaeda.

"But frankly, it is our hope that this can galvanize the Iraqi leaders to unite against this form of extremism," Petraeus said from Baghdad.

This was the second attack on the golden-domed Al-Askariya mosque, the burial place of two imams.

"Iraqi leaders have done what I think everyone would've hoped they would do in the wake of such a tragedy, such a horrific attack, and that is to condemn it universally, and again, call for calm in the wake of it," Petraeus said.

That calm may be difficult to secure -- when the mosque was hit in 2006, the incident triggered widespread sectarian violence. Petraeus said he and his forces are already working to avoid reprisals.

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[karlrschneider]

1. Such a fantastic grasp of the obvious.

:eyes:

[Disturbed]

4. If it is such a sure thing that al Q did this why would the

Shi'ites take it out on the Iraqi Sunnis?

[karlrschneider]

6. Oh, I didn't read the whole link before...I meant the part about "a serious blow"

which is of course true in any case...

[otherlander]

5. Hey!

I are serious cat! This are serious blow!

[Olney Blue]

2. The whole fucking war is a serious blow.

[hobbit709]

3. The real question, as the Romans said

Cui bono?

[MichiganVote]

7. Again? Gee, who would have thought....

[bemildred]

8. It did not work before, and it won't work now, General.

If you were half as smart as you are supposed to be, you would already know that, but I suppose there is no career advancement in the "reality based community" is there?

[spanone]

9. How does Petreaus have time to appear on television???? Get your ass to work ending this war.

[rzemanfl]

10. Killing people and blowing off their limbs is not a horrific attack?

But knocking down some minarets that are important to a Middle Eastern superstition is horrific? This is fucked up.