Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Religious Authority Upset Because Americans Are Arming Baathist Tribes
Security, Politics
(Al Bayyna Newspaper) - 19 JUN - A number of Iraqi clerics and politicians have criticized the weak security procedures in Samarra before the disaster which occurred last Wednesday. They are also critical of the new American strategy to arm tribes which are mostly Baathist. In a press statement, politicians and clerics confirmed, “There is something wrong in the government’s monitoring of many different issues, especially “procedures” of the American Army in a number of provinces which includes arming some Sunni tribes that have a Baathist history while Americans are calling to destroy the militias.”
Political observers have said, “Blowing up the Samarra shrines is a terrorist crime and it is simultaneous with critical reports from European sources in Brussels who state that Saudi Arabia has succeeded in convincing the American administration to initiate a project for the Sunni Baathists to rule Iraq. The European sources described this critical political / military project as a dual project to arm the Sunni Baathist militias with weapons and ammunition in order to prepare them to take control of cities and neighborhoods one at a time. This will occur while the US forces and the MNF attack the “Shiite volunteer committees” [militias] in order to allow the minority to rule Iraq, or at least to help Baathists occupy all of Baghdad and remove the Shiites from Baghdad.
Labels: Baathists, Samarra, tribes
