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To: rrufff who wrote (5953)	3/12/2004 4:14:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

Your friends at work: Tuesday, 02 September, 2003 The logic behind the bombing by our Middle East editor Bertus Hendriks, 2 September 2003 On the day that thousands and thousands of Shi'ite mourners carried the few remains of their slain cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim to his grave, the US occupying authorities were rocked by yet another powerful car bomb, this time in the capital Baghdad, where a police academy was targeted. Is there a strategy emerging from this wave of deadly attacks? The fact that the car bomb hit a police academy is no coincidence, but rather symbolic. After all, the Americans have been doing all they can to reduce their visibility as an occupying force and are trying to hand over responsibility for maintaining law and order to an Iraqi police force as speedily as possible. The bombers' obvious message therefore is that the US isn't even capable of guaranteeing security to Iraqi civilians at the most basic level. By the same token, Friday's attack in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf appears to serve a specific purpose: hitting the Shi'ite Muslim community in the heart. The atrocity places a great strain on relations between the US and the Iraqi Shi'ites. It's an area where the US had operated with the utmost prudence, an approach that yielded them a first modest but encouraging result. The young radical Ayatollah Muqtada as-Sadr may be agitating against the US presence, but the Hawza, the top Shi´ite religious authority in Iraq, still refuses to launch a national anti-US struggle. [...] rnw.nl Under the dubious pretense of bringing "democracy" in Iraq, US crusaders and their auxiliaries are snafuing a country of 25 million people, pitting Sunnis against Shi'ites, Kurds against Arabs, etc. You condone that mess because it fits your Zionist wildest dreams but then, what's wrong with Arabs turning the tables on their oppressors? Why wouldn't they use the same logic and pit Basque separatists against Spaniards, or African-American Muslims against white Christians? Judeofascist Crusaders had better heed their own gospel: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Luke 6:31 bible.com