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To: JohnM who wrote (134439)	8/25/2005 9:17:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Right now the bulk of insurgency/bombing, etc., directed at US troops seems to come from Sunnis not necessarily connected to Al Q. But much of the killing of Iraqis by Iraqis is a proto-civil war violence, mostly Sunni versus Shia. That is not in accord with the just about universal reports that say, while most of the IEDs are directed by Iraqis, the suicide bombers who have been identified have all been foreign. Furthermore, Zarqawi is on record (remember the intercepted letter last winter?) as setting the fomenting of a Sunni-Shia civil war as his strategic goal. With this end in mind, the suicide bombers have targets many Shia gatherings, such as funerals and mosques, seeking to exacerbate the sectarian divisions.