Thursday, December 21, 2006

What is Iraq upto

Iraq. Once it was Saddam's territory. Today it Bush's territory. Quite a change! But one thing remains constant - Killings . Every day people are killed just becasue they are either Sunni or Shiite. Read this news item -
********************************************************************************** Killed for the sake of a name ----- By Aqeel Hussein in Baghdad and Colin Freeman(Filed: 02/04/2006) For police in Baghdad's Al Adil neighbourhood, the 14 corpses looked like the products of just another night's work in Iraq's sectarian war. All were young Sunni men, all had been killed with a bullet to the head and all were found dumped at a tip.Only when they noticed their identity cards - carefully placed on the victims' chests - did officers realise what else they had in common. All shared the same first name: Omar.Men lift the coffin of a slain relative outside Yarmouk Hospital The victims' only crime, it seemed, was to be namesakes of Imam Omar, a prominent historical figure in the Sunni religious tradition. Until recently, it would have been no more a statement of faith than a Christian being called John, Peter or Paul. *************************************************************************************** So is Iraq heading for a civil war? Well its already into it. It started when U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad. It began when Sunnis discovered what they had lost, and Shiites learned what they had gained. And the worst is yet to come.

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