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BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll from the bombing rose to 63, including women [...]

~Snooper~Hat Tip to Gateway Pundit...It seems as though Obammy the Fraud is seen for what he is all the way over in Iraq. Imagine that. The fellow that the Lame Stream Media lied about saying he was calling for a Jihad against America has said a mouthful about Obammy the Fraud.A representative of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Friday called Iraqi officials to show patience duri

Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible — a potentially significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad.  The edicts, or fatwas, by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani suggest he seeks to sharpen his long-held opposition to American troops

Saui authorities have detained a leading Ismaili activist who complained to the King of Saudi Arabia ovr allgedrights abuses againt the Shiite minority in the country. Ahmd Turki Al-Saab was arrested days after he and five othr Shiites from the southern province of Najran handed King Abdullah a 300 page report over abuses by his [...]

Muqtada al-Sadr, Shiite leader of the Mahdi militia, warned the Iraq government he might end the self imposed cease fire which has held his men away from fighting American and Iraq armed forces. However, his comments did not stop US and Iraq military forces from continuing their efforts to defeat the Mahdi militia in [...]

Last Saturday , I questioned whether Shiite militias were copying the strategy and tactics of Hezbollah in its defensive standoff Lebanon in 2006 against the Israelis. Unlike other commentators who forecast victory based on body counts, I was pessimistic about the eventual outcome: "But the Shiite militia leaders have already achieved one strategic goal: they showed Pentagon planners and American voters that the Iraqi army is nowhere ready to secure Iraq, much as Hezbollah exposed the weaknesses...(read more)

Senator John McCain is boasting that his ideas to increase the number of American troops has produced the components of victory in Iraq. Usnfortunately, he forgot to inform the Mahdi militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr the surge was working. Armed Mahdi militia appeared on the streets of Baghdad for the first time in [...]

Fadlullah calls for serious Dialogue between the Shiite and the Wahhabi sects The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah warned that the current situation the nation is passing through is the most critical and complicated one. He also warned against the American suggestions that some Sunni countries are confronting other Shiite groups. His Eminence emphasized that [...]

The attack stoked fears of an upsurge in intra-Muslim violence. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government rushed to contain Shiite wrath against Sunnis, clamping a curfew on Baghdad and asking for U.S. troop reinforcements in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of here, and for a heightened U.S. military alert in the capital.But sketchy reports of sectarian strife began to come in: Police told of at least four Sunni mosques in Baghdad and south of here attacked by arsonists and bombers, and of a smaller Shiite shrine bombed north of here. More...

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More positive signs even before Bush's surge plan begins. One of the concerns was that the Shia-controlled government wouldn't fo after Shia criminals, but it looks like they were sincere in their calls to fairness. Good for them. Let's hope it keeps up. U.S. Warplanes Attack Shiite Militiamen Saturday, April 07, 2007 BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes attacked suspected militiamen wielding shoulder-fired rockets Saturday in the second day of fierce fighting against Shiite gunmen south of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials and witnesses said. At least one civilian was killed and five were seriously wounded when an American tank fired on their house in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. The victims were pulled from the rubble and evacuated to Diwaniyah hospital, police said. => Read more!

The US Army found a nest of terrorists that could use a good beating, and it's quite possible that the terrorists got their weaponry from Iran too:BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. warplanes attacked suspected militiamen wielding shoulder-fired rockets Saturday in the second day of fierce fighting against Shiite gunmen south of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials and witnesses said.At least one civilian was killed and five were seriously wounded when an American tank fired on their house in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. The victims were pulled from the rubble and evacuated to Diwaniyah hospital, police said.The U.S. military had no immediate comment Saturday on any casualties among civilians or soldiers in Diwaniyah.In Baghdad, two American soldiers were killed and seven were wounded by two separate roadside bombs Friday.One U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded in an attack with an armor-piercing explosively formed projectile, or EFP, the mil

According to Stolberg and O'neil at the New York Times: "President Bush today said Al Qaeda was to blame for the rising wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, which he refused to label a civil war."REFUSED!!!! Do you here me? He refused to label it a civil war. More from the NYT article: "The president acknowledged that there were high levels of sectarian violence in Iraq, but he put the blame

President Bush leaves White House press conference from the East Room, Februray 14, 2007. Photo by REUTERS/Jim Bourg.Wednesday President Bush said that he was convinced that factions within the Iranian government were supplying Shiite militia in Iraq with lethal weapons. The lethal weapons were used in roadside bombs and were said to have killed American troops in Iraq. "I can say with certainty that the Quds Force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated I.E.D.'s (improvised explosive devices) that have harmed our troops,"In the press conference on Wednesday, Bush said he was unsure whether or not people in the highest levels of the Iranian government knew or ordered the attacks. When asked by the press how he was so sure that the highest levels of government were involved in the shipment of lethal weapons to Iraq? He replied, "We don't know . . . whether the head leaders of Iran ordered" it, but here's my point, either they knew or didn't know,