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prime minister. that is, the sunnis have had the position of speaker of the parliament, the kurds have had the position as president of the country. the shia have had the prime ministership. the problem has been the sunnis have really not accepted that. they certainly don t like maliki. the question is is if they company up with another figure not named maliki, will that person be acceptable to the sunni community? i think they can certainly put together a government that includes a number of sunni ministers. they ve done that several times. the problem is, if the shia are expected to somehow share power in the sense of take the number one position, the prime ministership, and split that between the sunni and shia, not such an easy proposition. one has to remember and keep in mind, if you look through an entire arab middle east, there s been one shia-led government, that s the government in iraq. that s been the whole difficulty of iraq ever since we went in in
maliki has done in the past to ensure that all people inside of iraq sunni, shiite and kurd feel they have a voice in their government. reporter: and just last week, maliki was still preaching unity. translator: we must stand as one united front. our insistence and will must never waver when it comes to expelling these criminals. reporter: yet it was maliki who may have prevented the united states from keeping troops in iraq after the surge to help build a true democracy. he made it very difficult for the united states to retain troops in iraq. but, again, the obama administration never really tried. reporter: now maliki is under pressure again, with president obama insisting the united states will only step in if nuri al maliki takes another shot at a unified state where shiites,
two points. one is at this point, however, maliki isn t doing a stabilization operation in the sunni areas. right now he has been thrown on the defensive by an isis-led blitzkrieg that is now in baqubah to the north and to the south of baghdad, threatening shia areas. and that s more of a military than a long-term stabilization political diplomatic endeavor. and that s what the president has to face right now among other things. it involves iranians coming in and our own people on the ground right in the middle of this thing. so on paper you see that the iraqi military far outnumbers the isis forces and others 100 to 1 or 50 to 1. how can they be defeated? talk a little bit about how that is possible. my understanding is it s morale issues, it s leadership issues, and also a lot of shia forces stationed in mosul saw no reason to try to stand up and fight in a sunni-dominated area. is that accurate?
a sign of rising sectarian violence. at the height in 2006 and 2007, sometimes there would be dozens of bodies every day that would be discovered, often with signs of torture, hands bound, sometimes holes drilled into their heads. there was more bloodshed in baghdad today. a car bomb exploded in the predominantly shia neighbor of sadr city, one of just six bombs detonated in baghdad today. we got word there was a blast not too far from here, five or ten minute drive. we re not sure what sort of a device it was. we believe it was some sort of a roadside device. a couple of days ago there was a person with a suicide vest that detonated themselves. this is early reports. three people are dead. a number of others are wounded. we re still trying to gather more information. normally we would rush to the scene. but in baghdad, that is a very dangerous thing to do. often there are secondary device timed to explode 10, 20, 30 minutes after the first device. so any first responders to go to
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