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Titolo: Guerra etnica a Tal Afar

The Irish Times, Wed, Sep 14, 05
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2005/0914/2834991131FR14JANSEN.html
Latest US-led operation in Iraq fuels hatred
by Michael Jansen
IRAQ: US forces are being sucked into "ethnic civil war" in attacking
Tal Afar.
The US-Iraqi assault on the city of Tal Afar is seen by Arab Sunnis and
some western commentators as a punishment of Sunni Turkomen for
supporting the Sunni Arab resistance.
They point out that when the US and Iraqi troops entered Tal Afar on
Sunday, they found most insurgents had fled and there had been few
foreign fighters based there. Iraqi troops were given the task of
carrying out house-to-house searches to collect any weapons and gain
intelligence on the insurgents. Houses were looted and ransacked.
While most of Tal Afar's men, women and children left ahead of the
onslaught, men who remained to secure their homes were rounded up and
confronted by masked informers, who identified alleged militants and
their sympathisers who were taken away in lorries to a US camp. US
military sources say few selected by informers are insurgents or yield
any useful information.
Iraqi army units employed in this operation have been drawn from the
peshmerga, the Kurdish militia which has no love for ethnic Turks and is
fighting Turkomen for control of the oil city of Kirkuk. The informers
are mainly Shia Turkomen, who account for 30 per cent of the residents
of Tal Afar, and are settling feuds with the 70 per cent Sunni Turkomen
majority.
According to Juan Cole, an authoritative source at the University of
Michigan who closely follows events in Iraq, the campaign was initiated
by Shia prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari in response to a call from local
Shia Turkomen.
Dr Jaafari visited Tal Afar on Monday in spite of a $100,000 bounty on
his life offered by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
In Dr Cole's view, the Tal Afar campaign is "ethnic civil war."
"The US will never get stability in Iraq if it is merely an adjunct to a
Kurdish-Shia alliance against the Sunni Arabs and their Turkomen
supporters."
Tal Afar - with a population of 400,000 - has suffered instability and
insecurity over the past 18 months. Following a devastating US attack a
year ago, most residents fled temporarily.
Since the ongoing operation was launched, 3,000 families out of a total
of 50,000 have sought refuge in inadequate and squalid camps near Mosul
and at the village of Abu Maria.
But it is not clear how many have homes to which they can return, due to
bombing and destruction during and after the fighting.
Commentators make the comparison between Tal Afar and the central Iraqi
city of Falluja, devastated by a US onslaught last November, and warn
that rendering homeless such a large number of people can only fuel
Sunni resentment and secure fresh recruits for the resistance.
Rising tension between the Shia-Kurdish coalition and Sunnis has
prolonged bickering over the constitution, and prevented a final text
from being printed and distributed to Iraqis ahead of the October 15th
referendum.

intelligence on the insurgents. Houses were looted and ransacked.
Tutte puttanate senza nulla a sostegno.
-Stefano

 Latest US-led operation in Iraq fuels hatred
Macché, i turkmeno sono corsi a Baghdad a chiedere che gli assumano 
almeno 1.000 poliziotti, dopo aver pulito dalla spazzatura terrorista la 
città.
Tutto li.
Se poi pensano di essere sleali verso il legittimo governo iracheno, le 
legnate se le cercano.
Mirco

 -Stefano
Non ti riconosco. Mi sembri smagrito.Dove sei stato? Che t'hanno fatto, Mono?
Am.

Non ti riconosco.
...disse il povero *FESSO MONONEURONE*.... :)
-Stefano

 supporting the Sunni Arab resistance.
Vedi anche qua:
http://www.juancole.com/2005/09/tal-afar-as-ethnic-civil-war-much-of.html
E oggi, rivendicando la strage di ieri, Al Zarqawi ha risposto per le
rime:
Lui dichiara guerra a TUTTI GLI SCIITI dell'Iraq come vendetta per Tal
Afar.
Nota che la guerra etnica viene fomentata sia da Al Qaeda SIA dalle
marionette USA che rispondono al nome di "governo Irakeno".
La "resistenza", invece (quella vera, non gli stragisti di Al Qaeda),
invece, sono assai meno settari.  L'"estremista" sciita Al Sadr
condanna sia la costituzione che l'attacco di Tal Afar, e collabora con
i sunniti.
A Ramadi, in mano alla resistenza, la popolazione caccia via quelli di
Al Qaeda e protegge la minoranza sciita (
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2005/08/iraq-resistance-battles-zarqawi-sunni.html
)
Non so voi, ma a me il ruolo di Al Zarqawi, piu' che un "resistente",
somiglia a uno dei terroristi neri della nostra vecchia strategia della
tensione.

 tensione.
Guardare con le lenti ideologiche di 40 anni fa non aiuta a capire.
Ti pare impossibile che un culto nefasto riesca ad attrarre decine di 
migliaia di giovani ad unirsi ad una causa folle ed assassina?
Comunque su una cosa hai, involontariamente, ragione.
L'ideologia che muove Zarkawi non è di molto differente dal Nazismo.
Mirco

Nella vecchia fattoria iah iah oh
Sotto nostra protezione un giorno si voto'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1571575,00.html
Donkeys and camels hired to aid Afghan poll
Declan Walsh in Kabul
Friday September 16, 2005
The Guardian
Afghan election officials have hired 1,200 donkeys, 24 camels, 300
horses and nine helicopters to deliver ballot boxes to the most remote
parts of the country's rugged terrain ahead of Sunday's election.
A deluge of candidates - 5,800 for the 249-seat lower house of
parliament and 34 provincial councils - will see voters grappling with
some of the world's largest ballot papers.
Voters in Kabul must wade through 14 broadsheet pages containing
photographs and symbols of more than 700 candidates, choosing just two.
Voting is scheduled to take 10 hours but could extend into the night,
the chief electoral officer, Peter Erben, said. Officials are also
worried about the"assassination clause" - a rule that provides for a
second-placed candidate to be elected in the event of the winner's
death. In a country still awash with private militias and weapons, that
could be seen as an invitation for losing candidates to overturn defeat
by murdering their victorious opponents.
Counting Sunday's vote will take at least three weeks and it is
expected to be at least six months before the fractious parliament
starts work. "It's going to be pretty chaotic," admitted a senior
government official.
Gunmen in the conservative Nuristan province yesterday shot a female
candidate several times. She was airlifted to Bagram military base
north of Kabul. A US spokeswoman described her condition as "stable".
In Kabul intelligence officials warned of the likelihood a spectacular
Taliban attack against a western target to derail the historic poll.

 Donkeys and camels hired to aid Afghan poll
PS: De Cesari, non ce lo hai detto della tua promozione :-D
GT

 Nella vecchia fattoria iah iah oh
quella bestia di Torrieri iah iah oh... :)
-Stefano

 PS: De Cesari, non ce lo hai detto della tua promozione :-D
...disse quell'asino di un Torrieri... :)
-Stefano

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8286
...
The people torn apart were not the only ones to die in Iraq yesterday.
In a Sunni village 10 miles north of Baghdad near Taji, men dressed as
soldiers - and who possibly were soldiers - moved in just before first
light and took away 17 men whom they handcuffed, blindfolded and shot.
The dead included one policeman and several men who worked as drivers
and construction workers at a US base.
One of the many reasons why Iraqis are becoming more terrified by the
day is that they do not know if the policemen or soldiers who wake them
in the middle of the night truly work for the government or are a death
squad.
Another suicide bomb in northern Baghdad killed 11 people as they
queued to refill gas cylinders. The attack in Qadimiyah was clearly
aimed at killing as many Shia as possible since few Kurds or Sunni
would have been present. Along with the other bombings, it was later
claimed by al-Qa'ida in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
...
Sa'af Jabber Ajmi, a Shia labourer from Nasiriyah, lying in the Noman
hospital in the Adhamiya district, with shrapnel in his leg, shoulder
and back, said: "I thought what happened was a reaction to the Iraqi
President's visit to the US." In another bed was Ali Ghazi, also a
Shia from the Iraqi deep south. "I believe it is the Americans who are
doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war
and they can control our wealth." Many survivors lying mangled by this
morning's bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which
the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and
Sunni.

 
Titolo del ca**o "alla Namib" da parte del nostro disinformatore
Torrieri che, da *UN SINGOLO IRACHENO* che spara una ca***ta fa
diventare la sua affermazione come di tutti "gli irakeni".
-Stefano