The U.S.-Sunni Conspiracy Against the Shiites of Iraq
October 11th, 2007
By WILLIAM KERN
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Are the Iranians really meddling in Iraq as the Americans charge, or is Washington just looking for an excuse to attack Iran? According to this op-ed article from Iraq’s Sotal Iraq newspaper, the charges are part of a U.S.-Sunni plot to take control of Iraq back from the Shiites.
“Americans deal with Iraqi Shiites as though all of them were members or Iran’s ‘Quds Force’ … the U.S. agenda now requires Iraqis to enter into an open confrontation with Iran by making Shiites into scapegoats.”
By Asad Rashid
Translated By James Jacobson
October 8, 2007
Iraq - Sotal Iraq - Original Article (Arabic)
Americans deal with Iraqi Shiites as though all of them were members or the “Quds Force [a special unit of Iran Revolutionary Guards ],” an Iranian group that doesn’t exist in Iraq except in the imaginations of American military leaders and their failing commander, General David Petraeus, who has taken upon himself the task of destroying Iraq and transforming it into an arena for settling regional and international scores, a process by which every Iraqi sect and ethnicity is paying an enormous price.This American view of Iraq, in which Shiites are all considered members of “Shiite militias” or elements recruited into the “Quds Force,” reflect the state of confusion and frustration of the Bush Administration and its forces in Iraq, especially since Iranian-American reports talk of how the conflict is essentially about a struggle for influence and natural resources – resources that abound in Iraq and Iran - and particularly in Iran - where oil and gas reserves constitute a threat to American interests and influence in the region. This is what always pushes the American side to brandish the danger of Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, creating misgivings among countries in the region and its allies in the West.
In the midst of this conflict, American forces continue to provoke the Iranian side, involving Iraqi Shiites in a battle that has nothing to do with them. Analysts of Iraqi affairs see no reason for such an escalation while the U.S. military arms terrorist militias on the pretext of fighting al-Qaeda, except for the fact that the American agenda now requires Iraqis to enter into an open confrontation with Iran by making Iraq’s Shiites into scapegoats.
Now comes the latest barbaric American operation, which took place in the village of Al-Jizani on the outskirts of Baquba. Witnesses revealed the depth of the confusion, when dozens of Shiite civilians on a pilgrimage were killed in air strikes of excessive force on the pretext that members of the Quds Force and one of its leaders had taken refuge in this area.
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