Source: commentisfree.guardian.co.uk
Two reasons to pay attention to opinion pieces and analysis: The headlines are much more inventive - how I wish I came up with this one - and there are the occasional rays of real insight breaking through the clouds of habitual thinking:
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evano Source: latimes.com
Gosh, you think it could be a civil war? Nah, this war is anything but civil.Since the beginning of May, attacks by Sunni Arab and Shiite Muslims have claimed the lives of more than 6,000 Iraqi civilians, according to a United Nations study and Iraqi police reports.The Kufa blast …
Source: The Times Online
Nicholas Blanford: The present conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is not just a local quarrel between bitter foes who have been fighting each other in southern Lebanon for a quarter of a century. It is an attempt to redefine the balance of power in the Middle East.
Source: salon.com
A search for Sadr City's killing fields goes terribly wrong.
[Editor's note: This is the last of a three-part series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Free day pass req'd.]
Source: SBS World News Australia
Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites have protested the death of a leading Pakistani Muslim Shi'ite cleric who was killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the cleric's house in Karachi.
Source: opednews.com
It was just last month when President Bush assured the world that the situation in Iraq was dramatically improving. Sectarian tensions were going to relax as a result of Zarqawi's overly publicized death.
Source: salon.com
A savage outbreak of retaliatory killings has pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. In the first of three exclusive reports, our correspondent investigates the Mahdi Army's Baghdad death squads.
Source: salon.com
In January 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Bush met with three prominent Iraqi dissidents, who, in discussing scenarios of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, "talked about Sunnis and Shiites. It became apparent to them that the president was unfamiliar with these terms."
Source: www9.sbs.com.au
US intelligence believes that the most recent message from Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, which accuses Iraqi Shiites of waging "genocide" against Sunnis, is authentic.
Source: iht.com
Iraq's three main groups - the Shiite Arabs, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds - are killing each other with greater ferocity than ever, and the Americans are playing referee.
Source: atimes.com
Many argue that the American project in Iraq is doomed. They have their heads in the clouds. The answer to the crucial question of whether President George W Bush's stay-the-course strategy can succeed is: Yes, it can.
Source: news.yahoo.com
So, a little more than a week ago, I posted this article, entitled "Saudi religious police face curbs on power over moral offenses." It seems they've found a new mission very quickly.
Source: Reuters.com
From the article:Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi called on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
Source: msnbc.msn.com
During the cold war, containment doctrine was based on the premise that the Soviet Union was a powerful force that was going to be around for a long time to come.
Source: news.independent.co.uk
The Sunni Arabs of Iraq feel they are fighting for their very existence. Some 5 million strong, they see themselves as fighting against a foreign occupation and impending Shia and Kurdish domination.
Source: latimes.com
Nearly 4,000 civilian deaths, many of them Sunni Arabs slain execution-style, were recorded in the first three months of the year.
Source: alertnet.org
Iraq's new unity government may have a vision of peace and prosperity but it might never reach beyond their fortified Green Zone compound without a determined political effort to undermine the insurgency, analysts say.
Source: newstatesman.com
Now that al-Zarqawi has been replaced by "sectarian violence" and "civil war", the big news is the attacks by Sunnis on Shia mosques and bazaars. The real news, which is not reported in the CNN "mainstream", is that the Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq.
Source: Informed Comment
Professor Cole's take on the emerging discussion regarding the partitioning of Iraq. From the article:Let's get one thing out of the way. As for letting a civil war rage, deliberately, I don't understand.
Source: chicagotribune.com
State department report: deaths due to terrorism has increased four fold since 2004. The agency attributes the change largely to new ways of tallying the incidents as now they count the incidences in iraq. (even without iraq it has increased though)
Source: Strategypage.com
I don't agree 100% with Jim Dunnigan, but I respect his reporting and thoroughness. As it is, he's got a mix of good news and some bad news about Iraq. There are things the sensationalist media is ignoring that are likely to be what makes or breaks Iraq.
Source: wsws.org
Maliki’s history is typical of the Shiite fundamentalists who have collaborated with the US occupation of Iraq over the past three years. Much of his life was spent in exile. In 1980, he fled Iraq to escape a brutal crackdown on Da’awa by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Source: iht.com
Good guys, bad guys, all the same?
Source: asharqalawsat.com
In his evaluation of US policy on the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Saleh al-Mutlaq, a secular Iraqi politicians, has said that the United States made many mistakes, and it should open a new chapter with the Iraqis and correct these mistakes.
Source: metimes.com
Happy birthday, Mr. Prophet:
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