Church Bombed in Mosul;
Christian Leaders Protest Gov't Unconcern;
Sadrists Show Support for Christians
A church in the northern metropolis of was bombed in Mosul on Tuesday, as Christian leaders accused the government of PM Nuri al-Maliki of minimizing the seriousness of the crisis facing their community. Meanwhile, members of the hard line Shiite Sadr Movement reached out to the Christians. The Sadrists are Iraqi nationalists and enemies of the same Sunni fundamentalist vigilante groups that have repeatedly attacked the Christians.
More Christians left the city on Sunday, heading for nearby Christian villages that they feel are safer. The pace of the exodus has slowed from last weekend.
Father Philip Najim of the Patriarchate of Babylonia of the Chaldeans in part blamed the American military forces , who, he said, "contribute to destabilizing the country, because they are not able to guarantee peace. No one cares about us or about Iraq."
I don't think Father Najim thinks that the "surge" "worked."
Aljazeera International reports on the exodus of Iraqi Christians from Mosul, in the wake of a wave of assassinations and attacks on them.
The Chaldean Patriarch recently spoke of the massive bloodshed that has befallen Iraq as that country's "Calvary."
About half of Iraqi Christians have been forced abroad by the violence.
McClatchy reports other violence in Iraq on Tuesday:
' Baghdad
Three civilians were injured by a roadside bomb in Talbiyah neighborhood in east Baghdad around 7:00 a.m.
Around 8:00 p.m. an adhesive bomb stuck to a sedan detonated in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad. When the police patrols came to the area of the explosion, a roadside bomb detonated injuring three policemen.
Police found one unidentified body in Jamia’a neighborhood in west Baghdad.
Salahuddin
Five civilians were injured by a bomb in Tuz Khurmatu market place in downtown the city on Monday evening.'
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posted by Juan Cole @ 10/15/2008 12:30:00 AM
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New NIE's on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq are discussed here:
New intelligence report says Pakistan is 'on the edge',
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53926.html
Occupation for Oil?
"As Hussein Shahristani laid out details of the 20-year production contracts his country was willing to offer, to international companies, US officials and a handful of oil men worried that Iraq’s oil exports could almost completely collapse before his ambitions are realised. The underwater pipelines that pump nearly 2m barrels a day into waiting tankers at Iraq’s Gulf coast export point are so corroded that a US government report has said they are in danger of failing at any time. (...) A report by Foster Wheeler, a US engineering group, says the first stage of the plan would require a complete overhaul of the country’s southern port, including dredging deeper shipping channels, building new pipelines, erecting storage tanks able to hold 18m barrels of oil and constructing facilities so large that Iraq would first need to resolve its long-running maritime border dispute with Iran and Kuwait."
Happy days.
Sadr is one canny politician. When we finally leave Iraq, I have a feeling he's going take over democratically, which means, of course, that we'll brand him a terrorist and go back to war with Iraq under the next Republican president.
The US is not only responsible for destablising the country, Mosul receives additional treatment.
First, the Kurdish Peshmerga are given virtual control of the city. The Kurds want to annex Mosul and also want to use the Christians as a tool.
The Assyrians Christians are held responsible for the sacking of Jerusalem and enslaving the Jews (during the Assyrian Empire time) by the JENSA infested US military, who also chose the Babylonian-era capital as a military base to destroy the archeology and take revenge for the ancient Jews.
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