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| Signs of reprisal killings emerge in Iraq |
| 2014-06-18 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Nearly four dozen Sunni detainees were gunned down at a jail north of Baghdad, a car bomb struck a Shiite neighborhood of the capital and four young Sunnis were found slain, as ominous signs emerged Tuesday that open warfare between the two main Muslim sects has returned to Iraq. The killings, following the capture by Sunni insurgents of a large swath of the country stretching to Syria, were the first hints of the beginnings of a return to sectarian bloodletting that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007. But, but, but, no such thing as good guys over there? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 The main purpose behind ISIS massacring Shias is to spark reprisals by p*ssed off Shias on Sunnis. After which ISIS can claim to be the "protectors" of the Sunni people. ISIS cannot conquer a united Iraq. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-18 22:50 |
| #1 "If the (Sunni militants) stay in Tel Afar, the Shiites can't go back home, but the Sunnis can," said another Shiite resident Without a strong leader to hold the tribes together, they tend to split up - like Yugoslavia, or even Czechoslovakia. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-06-18 13:09 |