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November 16, 2006The Latest Sign of Civil WarAP is reporting: BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the head of the influential Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars for allegedly inciting violence. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, speaking on state television, said Harith al-Dhari was wanted for inciting terrorism and violence among the Iraqi people. Al-Dhari is the top leader for the country's Sunni minority, and the move against him was likely to inflame sectarian violence already ravaging Baghdad and central Iraq. Association spokesman Mohammed Bashar al-Faidi told Al-Jazeera television the Interior Ministry's decision “is condemned with all its details. I don't know how to describe it but it represents the bankruptcy of the sectarian government following one scandal after the other. I hold no brief for al-Dhari. But it seems here's another sign that the situation in Iraq is closer to civil war than reconciliation. A spokesperson for al-Dhari, in response to the arrest warrant, accused the interior ministry "of supporting terrorism by covering for militias that are killing the Iraqi people....The decisions of this government are worthless because it only rules the Green Zone." Well, he's right on those counts. This tussle illustrates the fundamental problem for the United States: what is its role in the Shiite-Sunni conflict Bush's invasion of Iraq has unleashed? Support a government that includes parties in league with death squads? Support the Sunnis allied with forces looking to bring down the central government? Or muddle along in between? There may be no good options--and perhaps no workable ones, either. Posted by David Corn at November 16, 2006 05:57 PM |
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