October 16, 2006
LET US BE THE FIRST TO OFFER A NAME FOR IT--THE FREE-FIRE ZONE:
Fanatics lay claim to separate Sunni state (Oliver Poole, 17/10/2006, Daily Telegraph)
An alliance of Sunni insurgent groups claimed yesterday to be establishing a separate Sunni state in the west of Iraq in the latest demonstration of the growing fragmentation of the country.The statement by the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella organisation of fanatical Sunni groups that includes al-Qa'eda, is the first time a Sunni body has supported the break-up of Iraq.
It said the move was in response to the passing by the Iraqi parliament last week of a federalism law which would permit provinces to join together to form self-ruling regions. That is expected to result in the creation of a semi-autonomous Shia zone in the south, similar to the Kurdish state in the north.
A separate Sunni state was needed to protect itself from such an eventuality, the insurgent group said.
Even our special Providence can't explain enemies this stupid. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 16, 2006 10:55 PM
I bet Allah can. You have to be stupid to see things from the stupid's view.
Posted by: ic at October 17, 2006 1:07 AMThe soon to be FORMER IRAQ is being dsestroyed as surely as if we had bombed them into a sea of glass--as totally as Carthage, and people are saying it was "incompetent."
What is incompetent is the inability to see that opening the bars and dismissing the guards of a jailhouse results in a change in the way it operates. Is is as though the destruction of THE FORMER SOVIET UNION had never happened.
Posted by: Lou Gots at October 17, 2006 6:43 AMMohammed was way smarter than this, which is why he won.
Posted by: oj at October 17, 2006 10:39 AM