Word: samarra
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...basic problem of Iraq right now is ethnic and sectarian rivalry and competition. And there is a continuing effort on the part of the terrorists - in particular, the Zarkawi group - to pro-voke civil war. The attacks on Samarra pushed the country in that direction. But I think the Iraqi leaders decided not to go that way and stopped rather than move towards a civil war further. The effort by the terrorists to provoke a civil war continues. But the answer to the challenge of Iraq, given the ethnic and sectarian rivalry, is the establishment of a national-unity government...
...Samarra attack delayed [this effort]. The focus became crisis management and discouraging people from going towards civil war. Now the focus is back to the formation of a government...
...much harder have things become since the bombing of the Shi?ite shrine in Samarra? Is there less tendency for them to compromise...
...Samarra crisis could help push them, encourage them to go in this direction. If they didn't have a feeling that there was a concerted effort at provoking civil war by the enemies of Iraq, they cannot have any doubts in the aftermath of Samarra...
...notice that the politicians seem to be back-tracking even on things that they had more or less agreed upon. For instance, this effort to unseat Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Before Samarra, it seemed the parties had come to the general acceptance that he was going to remain Prime Minister in the new government. Now there seems to be a strong effort to dislodge him, and that really angers the Shi'ite bloc...