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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (11554)4/8/2004 7:32:26 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
US now the common enemy of Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq: experts
""You can divide and rule, or you can attack everybody and the effect is that you unite them against you," Shehadi told AFP.

The latter was the situation now faced by the United States and its allies in Iraq, he said."
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Muslims "will put away their personal grievances and differences in order to attack the common enemy. We've seen (that) in the last thousand years," Beaver said.
"This happened for example in the most spectacular way during the Crusades."

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For Shehadi, meanwhile, "American policy is seen as a threat to everybody in the region."

"They have no real friends... and we are seeing things that you've never seen before: (diplomatic) meetings between the Egyptians and the Iranians, meetings between the Syrians and the Turks."

The reason, Shehadi, said, was because the US was now seen as a "common threat."
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Sunni and Shiite Muslims will fight each other after they chase the US/occupying troops out.
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