Is a new fratricidal conflict, even ‘more ferocious’ that what has already occurred, about to break out in Iraq? According to this article from Iraq’s Sotal Iraq, now that American plans for Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife have run their course, Washington is whipping up an ethnic conflict between the Kurds and the Arabs – centering on oil-rich Kirkuk.
For Sotal Iraq, Hussein Al Kotbi writes in part:
“It seems that the five-year period allocated for sectarian conflict in Iraq is nearing an end, and another fragrance has begun to emerge from the American kitchen: that of ethnic conflict. … Previously, in an attempt to further fuel the Sunni-Shiite conflict, the Americans gave free reign to gangs of Sunni and Shiite Islamists, most of which were comprised of the remaining torturers, executioners and Fedayeen [paramilitary] of Saddam, who suddenly found themselves without an army to belong to, any protection nor any public agency to lift them out of unemployment.”
Later, Al Kotbi warns ominously:
“The new ethnic struggle will be an Arab-Kurdish one. This time, the U.S. administration is sparing no effort to spur on this ethnic conflict. The dispute between Kurds and Arabs, the self-confidence of both sides and a media that naturally incites this type of conflict are now laying the groundwork for an ethnic battle in Iraq that will be just as ferocious as the Sunni-Shiite conflict, in addition to wasting five more years of Iraqi lives and inflicting even more catastrophic damage to the Iraqi economy.”
By Hussein Al Kotbi
Translated by Nicolas Dagher
October 8, 2008
Iraq – Sotal Iraq – Original Article (Arabic)
It seems that the five-year period allocated for sectarian conflict in Iraq is nearing an end, and another fragrance has begun to emerge from the American kitchen: that of ethnic conflict.
The approaching conflict, which has been in preparation for some time, is based on alliances in the new Council of Representatives and is the so-called Blessed Revolution of July 22, which is the starting point of this phase, which looks ever more clearly to herald a period of ethnic conflict.
[Editor’s Note: We have been unable to find any independent reference to the “Blessed Revolution of July 22.”]
Previously, in an attempt to further fuel the Sunni-Shiite conflict, the Americans gave free reign to gangs of Sunni and Shiite Islamists, most of which were comprised of the remaining torturers, executioners and Fedayeen [paramilitary] of Saddam, who suddenly found themselves without an army to belong to, any protection nor any public agency to lift them out of unemployment.
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