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| Iraq |
| EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad? |
| 2022-09-01 |
| [AlAhram] Iraq's long-running power struggle between rival Shia camps devolved into bloody street violence this week, the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum. For 24 hours, loyalists of powerful holy man Moqtada Tateral-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival, al-Khoei, assassinated only a few hours after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... transformed the country's government Green Zone into a front line, trading fire with security forces and rival militias, and bringing the capital to a standstill. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 most complain of inadequate basic services, including electricity in the scorching summer heat. Californians? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-09-01 16:01 |
| #3 Not a Mookie fan, but better him and his than Iranian proxies. |
| Posted by: Nero 2022-09-01 15:11 |
| #2 I don't care as long as Biden doesn't send US troops back to Iraq. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-09-01 14:01 |
| #1 I suppose that if the US had removed him from the planet back in the oughts, some other azzhole would have taken his place. Still... |
| Posted by: Too Old To Work 2022-09-01 08:35 |