Posted on 02/22/2006 2:58:35 PM PST by War1983
The militant group al Qaeda is suspected of being behind Wednesday's bomb attack on a major Shi'ite shrine in Iraq which sparked sectarian reprisals, a senior U.S. official said.
"We believe this can be traced back to the Zarqawi al Qaeda movement," said the State Department's coordinator for Iraq policy, Ambassador James Jeffrey, adding the United States would do all it could to track down the perpetrators.
The attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra provoked outrage and counter-attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad where police said three clerics were among six people killed.
Earlier, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani made an urgent appeal not to let the country slide into civil war, a call echoed by Jeffrey.
"We find all of these (attacks) to be extremely troubling. We find all of them certainly to be efforts to spark a civil war. We think the Iraqis will do their very best to avoid just that. They understand the risks better than we," said Jeffrey.
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A definite goal of Zarqawi where he explicitly said in a intercepted letter he wrote.
DU does.
As suggested by your other post, some Iraqis are — shall we say — pointing fingers in the same direction.
Yeah, some of the more deranged DUers are pushing the line that the U.S. did it. You can't find a more cheerful bunch of liars anywhere than on the Left.
The DU still Fantasize About being in charge they are not nor will they be soon unless of course all the real Americans leave the country.
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Brit is reporting that Shiite's have retaliated against Sunni's, when in fact, the mosque bombing has AQ written all over it.
Sectarian reprisals despite a call for unity and calm.
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