Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist in Iraq writing for Antiwar.com, reports on a new development in Iraq, namely, that the U.S. armed forces are arming and training Sunni militias. If true, it's a stunning new error, compounding past ones (disbanding the army, banning the Baath, empowering the religious Shiites, etc.). Here's a quote:
Reports of the setting-up of U.S.-backed Sunni militias have brought new uncertainty to deepening chaos within Iraq.Some Sunni leaders from the troubled al-Anbar province west of Baghdad recently met away from their tribes to set up new militias, according to local reports.
These new armed groups have received early praise from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. officials. The United States had earlier called for the disarming of all militias for the sake of social peace and reconciliation, but that policy has clearly changed. The occupation forces now back both Shia and Sunni militias in different areas of the country.
Read the whole piece. It's a signal, and a dangerous one, that wittingly or unwittingly the United States is prepping Iraq for a much more violent civil war than the one that already exists.
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Mr. Dreyfuss,
Dahr Jamail, (his own website warrants mention: http://dahrjamailiraq.com) implicates both Sunni & Shia in what is a very 'witting' U.S. 'civil war' gameplan, long a part of its 'exit strategy' [congruent with its strategic need to destroy Arab nationalism in order to carry out its ME & global 'new world order' domination agenda] --as indicated by the following:
1] U.S. Considers Dividing Iraq Into Three Separate States After Saddam Is Gone, FORECASTS & TRENDS,10/1/02 http://www.profutures.comarticle.php/91/%20
Stratfor.com http://www.stratfor.com/reports that one of the leading long-term strategies being considered by US war planners is to divide Iraq into three separate regions. Under this plan Iraq would cease to exist.
Stratfor says that such a plan reportedly was discussed at an unusual meeting between Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and pro-US Iraqi Sunni opposition members in London in July. Further, they say that in September, the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, stated that the US goal in Iraq was to create a United Hashemite Kingdom that would encompass Jordan and Iraq's Sunni areas. Also, Israeli terrorism expert Ehud Sprinzak recently echoed this sentiment on Russian television on September 24.
So whose idea is this? According to Stratfor, Sprinzak stated that the authors of the "Hashemite" plan are Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, both considered the most hawkish of Bush administration officials.[...]
2] 2004 Rand study “U.S. Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11”
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, exec. editor American Muslim Perspective
http://www.amperspective.com/html/neo_orientalists.html
Rand study titled “U.S. Strategy in the Muslim WorldAfter 9/11” suggests exploiting Sunni, Shiite and Arab, non-Arab divides to promote the US policy objectives inthe Muslim world. [...]
3] U.S.IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY: CIVIL WAR
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF10Ak03.html
The plan [to break up Iraq] was allegedly conceived by David Philip, a former White House adviser working for the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC).[...]
4] Dismembering the body politic in Iraq By Ahmed Janabi
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7DFA2889-95A5-4B0A-A767-14E1A93C2539.htm
Thursday 22 June 2006, 8:31 Makka Time, 5:31 GMT
Iraqi nationalists fear the break-up of their country [...]
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