[Criminal Number 18F]

I thought that Iran was Sunni Muslem.

Yikes! Mike, Iran is the foremost nation of the Shiite branch of the Islamic faith. What is interesting is that the Iranian (and Iraqi) Shiites are seen by the Wahhabi sect in particular and the Sunni branch in general as heretics.

It is possible that the Islamists of the Sunni Triangle, who are sponsored by the Saudi Wahhabis, will make common cause with the Shiites. Until the US is gone. They they will be at each other's throats.

Also, Iranians are Persians; they are not Arabs and the ethnic and racial difference will have an effect. Most Iraqis will not lightly accept a Persian yoke (mind you, if the Iranian ayatollahs hadn't purged the Shah's military they would have had to accept one in the 1980s). If it is made clear enough that certain clerics are working for Iran, not Iraq, it will undermine those clerics.

One thing to remember is that Muqtada al-Sadr is the representative (I was going to say buggeree-boy) of the Iranian Ayatollahs, but Muqty is NOT the major or most respected Shiite Ayatollah in Iraq. (That would be Sistani, whose position on all this unrest is not being reported).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[endthematrix]

It's just a matter of who the true caliphate is. All (extremist?) factions want Pan Arabia. There will always be jockeying for power and within tribes and clans. When the SUPREME MULLAH steps up who gonna complain? He would rule ruthlessly anyway and the all bow to Allah, and under their rule you would have to bow too. I say "would" because it's an Arab hookah dream.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Sistani, whose position on all this unrest is not being reported

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I wonder to whose advantage that would be?
not rhetorical. I really do wonder. Iran, or us?

[BraveMan]

From your keyboard to the Coalition. Great minds and all that . . .

Warrant Issued for Anti-Coalition Cleric's Arrest