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Titolo: Iraq on brink as sectarian violence kills over 130 (Reuters)

Serio rischio di guerra civile in Irak. Che faranno i corpi di 
spedizione se scoppia? Situazione sfuggita di mano...
Am.
Iraq on brink as sectarian violence kills over 130
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sectarian violence killed more than 130 people 
across Iraq and left dozens of mosques damaged or in ruins as the 
United States appealed on Thursday to Sunnis and Shi'ites to step back 
from the brink of civil war.
 Dozens of bloody revenge attacks caused the death toll after 
Wednesday's suspected al Qaeda bombing of one of the holiest shrines in 
Shi'ite Islam.
 President George W. Bush stepped into the worst crisis since the U.S. 
invasion, one that threatens efforts to form a stable, unity government 
and bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.
 "The voices of reason from all aspects of Iraqi life understand that 
this bombing is intended to create civil strife," Bush said as the 
military reported seven more U.S. soldiers had been killed in two 
separate attacks on Wednesday.
 Bush praised Iraqi leaders' public efforts to maintain calm.
 The U.N. envoy also stepped in, asking Iraqi leaders to join him in a 
meeting. "I have invited political, religious and civil leaders to 
discuss confidence-building measures to ensure the situation remains 
under control," Ashraf Qazi told Reuters.
 But the main Sunni political group said it pulled out of U.S.-backed 
talks on forming a coalition after December's parliamentary election 
and leading clerics traded unusually frank sectarian criticisms that 
may do little to calm passions.
 President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, pressed ahead despite the Sunni 
boycott with a meeting that he had called to avert a descent towards a 
civil war. After discussions with Shi'ites, Kurds and leaders of a 
smaller Sunni group, he told a televised news conference that if 
all-out war came "no one will be safe".
 Among the dead were 47 people, apparently both Sunnis and Shi'ites, 
whom gunmen dragged from vehicles after they attended a demonstration 
to show cross-sectarian solidarity near Baghdad.
 IRAQIS STAY AT HOME
 Many of the 27 million Iraqis stayed at home amid a security clampdown 
and three days of mourning for the destruction of the Shi'ites' 
cherished Golden Mosque in Samarra on Wednesday.
 "I stayed home," Nasser Ahmed, a Sunni shopkeeper, said in Baghdad. "I 
was expecting mass killings in the streets."
 The next few days, starting with Friday when millions will go to their 
respective mosques, may be crucial to determining whether rhetoric from 
Shi'ite government leaders and clerics can restrain militiamen from 
rival Shi'ite factions, jostling for power, from an onslaught against 
once dominant minority Sunnis.
 Though bloodless, the bombing of the Samarra shrine has sparked 
greater fury than countless Sunni rebel attacks that have killed 
thousands of Shi'ites since U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein's 
Sunni-dominated regime three years ago.
 Some 130,000 U.S. troops, with smaller numbers of British and other 
allies, were standing by as the largely untried, U.S. -trained Iraqi 
army and police went on the highest alert, with all leave cancelled; 
the heavily armed Americans may have to intervene if large-scale 
violence increases, however.
 "The issue hangs on the next few days. Either the gates of hell open 
onto a civil war or the Shi'ites will take more power with the excuse 
that Sunni leaders are unable to rein in increasing terrorist 
activity," said Hazim al-Naimi, a political science professor at 
Baghdad's Mustansiriya University.
 "Only the U.S. military is preventing war in some areas."
 SUNNI MOSQUES ATTACKED
 The main Sunni religious group said 184 Sunni mosques had been 
damaged, some destroyed; 10 clerics had been killed and 15 abducted, 
the Muslim Clerics Association said, accusing Shi'ite religious leaders 
of stoking the anger by calling for protests.
 The direct criticism of the Shi'ites' revered Grand Ayatollah Ali 
al-Sistani, widely seen as a force for restraint, was unusual and 
prompted criticism in return from one of Sistani's fellow religious 
authorities.
 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is visiting the Middle 
East, urged Iraqis to pull together and not be pushed into sectarian 
strife by a bloodless but highly symbolic attack blamed on al Qaeda's 
leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
 "The only people that want a civil war in Iraq are the terrorists like 
Zarqawi," she told reporters.
 An Internet statement from the Mujahideen Council, which includes al 
Qaeda in Iraq, blamed Shi'ite leaders for blowing up the shrine to 
justify attacks and vowed a "shocking response".
 Underlining the broader resonance of events in Iraq, where Bush hopes 
a friendly democracy in the oil-rich nation can be an example to the 
whole Middle East, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pinned the 
blame for the shrine bombing on Israelis and Americans and warned they 
would face the wrath of Muslims.
 Shi'ite, non-Arab Iran, in dispute with Washington over its nuclear 
research programme, is close to the majority Shi'ites now in power in 
Baghdad, setting the new Iraqi government at odds with many fellow 
Arabs, most of whom are Sunni Muslims.
 In other violence, a bomb blasted an Iraqi army foot patrol in a 
market in the religiously divided city of Baquba, killing 16 people. 
Three journalists for Al Arabiya television were found shot dead after 
being attacked while filming in Samarra.
 (Additional reporting by Michael Georgy, Lin Noueihed, Ahmed Rasheed, 
Aseel Kami, Waleed Ibrahim, Faris al-Mehdawi, Nick Olivari, Lutfi Abu 
Oun and Salem al-Oreibi in Baghdad and Abdelrazzak Hameed in Basra)

Serio rischio di guerra civile in Irak.
Fantasia.
-Stefano

 Fantasia.
Come no. Reuters e BBC. Guarda 'brink', fesso.
Am.

Come no. Reuters e BBC.
Reuters e BBC ... COSA, caro *FESSO MONONEURONE*? :)
-Stefano

 spedizione se scoppia? Situazione sfuggita di mano...
ipocrita, chi ha mandato i soldatini inglesi e americani ad occupare
l'iraq non ha che da guadagnare dalla divisione tra sciiti e sunniti e
curdi.
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 curdi.
Eccerto. Abbiamo trovato il nostro generale Kutuzov. Guarda che 
l'attentato fino adesso e' attribuito ad Al Quaeda...
La politica USA sarebbe piuttosto quella di stabilizzare il paese se ci 
riuscissero...
Am.

 curdi.
Ah, interessante.
Quindi i mesi passati a cercare di portare i sunniti nell "arco 
costituzionale" e costruire un accordo per un governo di unità nazionale 
erano tutti un trucco, un inganno dietro al quale i servizi segreti 
dell'halliburton preparavano il Big Bang della cupola per scatenare la 
guerra civile?
Certo, voi del PDCI siete impagabili nel leggere la realtà dietro 
l'apparenza. Ora, se solo foste capaci di isolare le dieci spie che 
Calderoli invia alle vostre manifestazioni per coprirvi di ridicolo e farvi 
fare la figura dei coglioni...
Tb 

 riuscissero...
ROTFL!
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 fare la figura dei coglioni...
tranquillo ,  sul fare questa tipo di figura tu hai una lunga esperienza e
tradizione
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 ROTFL!
Essendo l'Irak un protettorato americano, che interesse avrebbero gli 
USA a vederlo affondare nella guerra civile, con gravi rischi per il 
loro contingente?
Oltre che codardo, sei anche idiota.
Am.

 Oltre che codardo, sei anche idiota.
se cosi' fosse sarei tuo parente.
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 dall'invasione di quel paese e di tutto quel che e' successo in seguito?
La verita' e' che soffri ormai di ADHD. Non riesci a concentrarti su 
una questione di PI manco dipinto.
Sei ridotto a fare liste di proscrizione di persone e paesi, sulla base 
del fatto che non sono comunisti. Il che per il tuo cervello fuso, 
significa essere nazisti.
E cio' che e' piu' grave, confondi il NG per la sala riunioni e la 
cassa d'amplificazione del tuo partitino.
Una bacheca per patetici comunicati, repellenti nella loro 
supponenza,mancanza di argomenti e falsificazione dei fatti.
Questa la tua visione della PI.
Su, sentiamo perche' USA e UK hanno interesse alla disintegrazione dell'Irak?
Fatti e fonti grazie:
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Am. 

 cassa d'amplificazione del tuo partitino.
ma dai? azzo... non si puo' fare nulla senza il permesso di lord haw
hawmalric.
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 hawmalric.
Quello era il contorno. Adesso rispondi al subject e alla domanda:
Ripeto:
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