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...problem, says Dr. Imam Ali Saleh, a Najaf-born Shi'ite scholar and religious leader, is that not even the most moderate Sunnis can stomach seeing Shi'ites in power. "A Sunni believes that the Shi'ite is inferior," he says...
During the appearance of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker before lawmakers this week, one major aspect of the picture in Iraq got scant mention. Iraq's Sunni insurgency and its most vicious wing, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was hardly discussed, even though Petraeus stressed that the Sunni insurgency remained alive and a potent threat. Anyone tuning in to C-SPAN - including al-Qaeda - might have gleaned a few lessons from the testimony about the U.S. strategy and vulnerabilities in Iraq...
...launching an attack against the Mahdi Army in Basra, where Maliki's forces were quickly bogged down and bloodied by Sadr's street fighters. That means the Americans may not have the ability to stop the Iraqi government from an even worse strategic blunder in a place where Sunni insurgents might deal a blow, like Diyala Province or Mosul...
Lesson Four: Al Qaeda may seize the opportunity to make dramatic gestures. The Sunni insurgency has genuinely been put back on its heels in the face of the surge, and there may be a temptation among insurgent strategists to lie low and regroup in their remaining havens around Iraq. But any insurgent pause now may mean lost chances to attack American troops and to score political points just as the disposition of U.S. military strength is up for debate...
...Sunnis worship God; Shi'ites worship God - and the imams," says Tareq Sammaree, offering a bumper-sticker putdown of the Shi'ite devotion to their pious human heroes, Ali and Hussein. The 58-year-old Sunni is a former professor at Baghdad University and a long-time Ba'ath Party member; he is not particularly fond of his Shi'ite countrymen. He claims he and his son were kidnapped by a Shi'ite militia and tortured for over a year at the Jadiriya prison in Baghdad, and that he does not know the fate...