Sunnies vs. Shiites and Kurds, Iraq is looking like a civil war between the diferent factions, evidence is building that is a least in the early stages of ethnic and sectarian warfare, evidence points to the fact the armed Iraqi Forces have mounted deadly assaults on fellow Iraqis to assert political and territorial dominance, ethnic and religius divisions defined the fighting, rebellious Suni Arabs clashing with Shiite Arabs and Kurds, academic and military analysts say that the battle have been hardened by the American policy of favoritism toward the Shiites and a lesser share to the Kurds, at least one Shiite militia has formed , not to oppose the Americas, but to exact revenge against the Sunnies.
The insurgency is being organized by former Baath Party officials who are intent to retake power, James Fearon, a profersor of political science at Stanford University, pointed that the creation of these groups are "part of the civil war in the makin we see now".
The New York Times, by Edward Wong
Tuesday, December 07, 2004