IRAQ: Shiite vs. Shiite battle mounts ( no mention of Iranian involvement by the MSM?)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 09:54 AM PT, Apr 20 2008 | Times staff writer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Los Angeles Blog:

Babylon and Beyond

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The relative peace created by the surge in Iraq is a fading memory. Talk of imminent strife dominates the news coming out of Iraq.

Cleric Moqtada Sadr, his forces under seige in Basra and Baghdad, warns of all-out war if the Iraqi government continues its offensive. Here's a translation of an extract from the statement he issued Saturday:

I am directing the final warning and talk to the Iraqi government to return to the right pathway, the peaceful way, reject violence towards its people — or they will be like Saddam's government. If the government would not return to the right pathway and rein in the militias that have interfered, we will announce an open war until liberation.

Times Baghdad bureau chief Tina Susman also reports that Iran's ambassador to Baghdad praised Iraq's efforts in the southern city of Basra while, somewhat confusingly, condemning the U.S.-backed Iraqi operation against the same elements in Baghdad's Sadr City.

[vladimir998]

Oh, no! We’re back to a quagmire, right?

Idiots. We’re not falling for it LASlimes

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I posted the Judy Miller piece:

IRAQ: Stuck in the middle - The United States has put itself in a dangerous spot --

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The United States has put itself in a dangerous spot -- between warring Shiite factions in Iraq.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The MSM will try to ignore this story:

Coalition Forces capture suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups criminals

[denydenydeny]

Excuse me, LA Times, but the headline has nothing at all to do with the story. Nowhere in the piece is there any indication of any “tensions between Sunni and Shiites.”

Idiots. People should be fired over this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No the writers are just doing their job....that’s the way the Managers want it written...see the connecting piece linked at #3.

[FARS]

Mookie is under house arrest in the holy city of Ghom in IRAN so he is not being seen around!

Check out the following interesting posts on AntiMullah:

LIVE VIDEO OF SHIRAZ MOSQUE EXPLOSION

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/live-video-of-shiraz-mosque-bombing.html

HOROWITZ PALESTINE HISTORY VIDEO

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/must-view-video.html

FIRST HAND IRAN NEWS BRIEFS INCLUDING MOOKIE

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/iran-news-briefs.html

ISLAMIST MARXIST VIDEO & OTHERS ON IRAN

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/death-to-dictator-khamenei-mostly.html

[txhurl]

I was thinking Mook was either detained or room temperature since nobody’s been able to ID him in public recently, too.

[BARLF]

Mark for tomorrow

Thanks Fars

[Fred Nerks]

I am directing the final warning and talk to the Iraqi government to return to the right pathway, the peaceful way, reject violence towards its people — or they will be like Saddam's government. If the government would not return to the right pathway and rein in the militias that have interfered, we will announce an open war until liberation.

incoherent rant dictated by Imadinnajacket to his dead sock-puppet's scribes, the MSM.

[1035rep]

Thanks

[RaceBannon]

That video with Khomenie returning, that is Peter Jennings asking the question.

Imagine seeing Sadeh Gotzebedeh sitting there, only to be dead from the Ayatollah himself within a year or so...

[mad_as_he$$]

Since the Shiite’s are fighting for control of the blackamrket it would not seen to be that bad.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest and FARS.

U.S. and Iran Find Common Ground in Iraq’s Shiite Conflict
(NY Times Analysis...read with caution)
New York Times | April 21, 2008 | JAMES GLANZ and ALISSA J. RUBIN
Posted on 04/20/2008 10:55:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004599/posts

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2004954/replies?c=4