Iraq - death squads, sectarian division and the US

[Barking_Mad]

Sectarian killing that can't be stopped, or one encouraged by the US via the Iraqi Government?

"They (death squads) evicted many of our good Sunni neighbours and killed many others," Abu Riyad of the predominantly Shia Shula area told IPS. "We protected them for a while, but then we could not face the militias with all the support they had from the Iraqi government and the Americans. It is a terrible shame that we have to live with, but what can we do?"

On the other hand, many Sunni Iraqis seemed unwilling to evict their Shia countrymen -- for a while. But people in one mixed area of Baghdad described strange developments.

"It is true that our neighbours did not evict us, but then the Americans swept the area and local fighters had to disappear from the streets," Hussein Allawi, a Shia who lived in a predominantly Sunni neighbourhood told IPS. "A group of masked strangers then entered the town right under American soldiers' eyes. Only then did we realise that we must leave, and that our good neighbours could not help us any more."

Many such stories are told around Baghdad.

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[nino_savatte]

I always thought that the death squads were a US-inspired....sorry, Negroponte-inspired innovation. A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about "Salvadorising" Iraq, it looks as though it has come to pass.

 

[London_Calling]

Divide and rule - not much else to be done at this stage. Decent, proven policy if that's your game.


Almost makes we want to wipe a tear away; learned it all from the British Empire, they did . . .

 

[Aldebaran]

Divide and rule - not much else to be done at this stage. Decent, proven policy if that's your game.


Almost makes we want to wipe a tear away; learned it all from the British Empire, they did . . .

Not the first time the US puts that in practice, isn't it. Nevertheless, it shall not work how they think and vision it.

salaam.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Not the first time the US puts that in practice, isn't it. Nevertheless, it shall not work how they think and vision it.

salaam.

And why is that?

 

[butchersapron]

It seems to be working already.

 

[tangentlama]

It seems to be working already.

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