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 [Digg / upcoming] Iran using Shiite proxies to try to kill leaders of Anbar: Not the first time we’ve heard of Iran giving aid and comfort to Sunni “militants”, although the assistance in this case is less direct than in the past. The more chaos in Iraq there is, the tougher it is for the U.S. to maintain a presence, the more it redounds to the Shiites’ advantage given their numerical advantage in the event.

 [Atari Forums] Ahmadinejad in Iraq: BAGHDAD — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, arriving in Baghdad to open what he declared a “new chapter” in relations between Iraq and Iran, warned President Bush on Sunday that America’s problems in the Middle East would worsen as long as he continued to accuse Iran of interfering in Iraq.

[Drunk at idrunk.com] Military: Iran using Shiite proxies to try to kill leaders of ...: Iran wants to weaken a burgeoning Sunni political movement in Iraq while also breathing new life into Al Qaeda? Read a rest ».

 [Vanguard News Network Forum] Scott Ritter on the clusterfuck that is Iraq and the pending JewS ...: The diabolical beauty of the Sunni resistance isn't its ability to exert direct control over all aspects of the anti-American activity in Sunni Iraq, but rather to manipulate the overall direction of activity through indirect means in a manner which achieves its overall strategic aims. The Sunni resistance continues to use al-Qaida in Iraq as a useful tool for seizing the strategic focus of the American military occupiers (and their Iraqi proxies in the Green Zone), as well as controlling Sunni tribal elements which stray too far off the strategic course (witness the recent suicide bomb assassination of senior Sunni tribal leaders).

[Fair Proxy Web] Car bombs targeting Iraqi security forces kill 18: Ahmadinejad’s visit was greeted warmly by Iraq’s Shiite Muslim leadership, who have had longtime links with Iran that predate Saddam Hussein’s toppling. At the same time, many Sunni Muslims in Iraq are opposed to the Iranian regime and .

[121 Contact Iraq] Feb 18 2008 Iraq’s Tragic Future: One-to-one communication with their peers in Iraq means that we now have friends on the ground.

[Caroline Glick] Iran's game of grand strategy: The report concludes, "There can be no question that Iran is actively supporting multiple insurgent and terror groups in Iraq, that its efforts began even before the American invasion, that Iranian elements have included the provision of direct support in the form of weapons and advisers, and that they have been involved in the growth of a solid relationship between Lebanese Hizbullah and Iraqi Shi'ite militias."

 [Blogging on Meds] Iraq’s Eastern Front; Colombian Marching Powder; Yankees Suck: Nowhere in Iraq do both Sunni and Shitte extremists thrive like Diyala Province. Located right to the east of Baghdad Province and connecting to the Iranian border, Diyala’s capital, Baquba, is an ethnically mixed warzone.

 [My Buffalo River Home] [February 25 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The ...: The Sunni/Shiite militias battling with each other”¦ The suicide bombings”¦ None of it would be occurring without the decade long concerted effort to destabilize and destroy the sovereign state of Iraq by the US government and certain .

 [CTD Weblog] IRAN IS LAIR OF AL QAEDA: The judgment that Iran has hosted Al Qaeda’s senior leadership council is likely to draw some criticism from those outside the government who doubt Iran plays a significant role in bolstering Sunni jihadist terrorism. Iran’s Shiite .

 [Lebz's Weblog] Hezbollah Scolds US for Sending Ships Toward Lebanon: American officials said Thursday that they were sending the destroyer Cole to the eastern Mediterranean, along with at least two other ships, in a “show of support” as Lebanon entered its fourth month without a president. But the move, after American officials have repeatedly blamed neighboring Syria for Lebanon’s political impasse, seemed to be a calculated show of force, one with ominous historical echoes for Lebanese of various viewpoints.

 [Comments for Dvorak Uncensored] Comment on Intellegence: “Iran ”” No bomb”Bush: “Yeah, but”¦” by ...: Yes, bush should have waited before invading, yes, bush should have questioned the intel coming from “curveball”, yes Bush should have questioned intel coming Iran about Iraqi WMD’s, and yes, we could have used these resources in a much more effective way, had we not invaded….but Saddam was a brutal dictator, his kids would most likely have been worse had they succeeded him, He took part in genocide and brutalities that make G-Bay look like a frat party.

[Blogger News Network] Bush in the Middle East: things are changing, and Bush is to blame: That is why Israel is being pressured by Bush: trying to keep things quiet while things are getting stablized in Iraq, and the general prosperity of the region makes rhetoric against Jews less inviting than the possibility of prosperity.

 [novus.liber] Can We Prevent an Iran Attack?: In establishing the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire in 1639, the Treaty of Qasr-i-Shirin demarcated the boundary between Sunni-ruled lands and Shiite-ruled lands. For eight years of brutal warfare in the 1980s, Iran tried to breach that line but could not.

[Daniel] Iraq’s Civil Resistance & Secular Left Opposition: The US supports its own TV networks in Iraq, while Iran and the Gulf states have satellite stations operating in the country that promote Shi’ite and Sunni political Islam, respectively. Yet it is Sana TV which has been singled out for .

 [Sustainabilitank] Go Talk To Muhammad on the Mountain - Middle East Censors Seek To ...: Governments in the Middle East are stepping up a campaign of censorship and surveillance in an effort to prevent an estimated 33.5 million Internet users from viewing a variety of Web sites whose topics range from human rights to pornography. As a result, millions of Middle Easterners are finding it harder by the day to access popular news and entertainment sites such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr.

[NDN Blog - NDN Blog] Mr Bush, a few things you may want to read today: William Voorhies, the American commander of the military training unit at the scene, the moment encapsulated his increasingly frustrating task ”” trying to build up Iraqi security forces who themselves are being used as proxies in a spreading sectarian war. This time, it was a Sunni politician ”” Vice Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie ”” but the more powerful Shiites interfered even more often.

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