Source: AP News via Yahoo News
The Dummy's Book On How Inflame An Occupied People:
Chapter One: simply order a "Made for TV" attack during the Iraqi Shiites' holy pilgrimage.
BAGHDAD, Iraq--The Muslim pilgrims' road to the holy city of Karbala was a highway of bullets and bombs for Shiites on Friday. Drive-by shootings and roadside and bus bombs killed or wounded 19 people, ratcheting up the sectarian tensions gripping Iraq.
Security forces, including U.S. armored reinforcements, girded for more bloodshed leading up to Monday's Shiite holiday. And north of Baghdad, in the Sunni Triangle, a two-day-old operation involving 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi troops swept through an area near Samarra in search of insurgents.
It was in Samarra that the insurgent bombing of a Shiite shrine last month ignited days of violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. More than 500 people died.
Authorities had feared new attacks as tens of thousands of Shiites, many dressed in black and carrying religious banners, converge on Karbala, 50 miles south of the capital, for Monday's 40th and final day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
I guess that even in Iraq, respect for beliefs and religious freedom just doesn't happen. It's another good example of a very (not) free Iraq.
Is there no coincidence either of this "Made for TV" attack being executed three days before the anniversary of the Iraqi liberation (occupation)?
Tags: [Holy Pilgrimage], [Shiites], [Shiites met with bullets and bombs], [anniversary of the Iraqi occupation], [Samarra]
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