Iraqi Leaders Attempt to Quiet Situation
February 26, 2006, 12:37 pm |
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There are some hopeful signs out of Iraq today, reports the BBC:
Political and militia leaders in Iraq say they have made progress in talks aimed at curbing sectarian violence. …
Sunni clerics and one of the main Shia militias have agreed to work together to prevent further sectarian bloodshed.
And a senior Sunni politician told the BBC that a new security plan had been worked out by Sunni and Shia leaders which could help relieve tensions. …
The BBC’s Jon Brain in Baghdad says there is renewed hope that political leaders will be able to salvage the stalled political process and form a coalition government.
The extreme violence of the past few days appears to have concentrated minds on trying to find a solution to the country’s sectarian divisions, he says.
…and…
Shia and Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq and abroad have used Friday prayers to call for calm amid sectarian strife sparked by an attack on an Iraq shrine.
Using militias could lead to a further entrenchment of sectartian divisions, though. But the Beeb did point out that the Iraqi army has replaced more locally-based security forces in several areas.
I just hope Iraqis as a whole see the bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra as the cynical act it was, perpetrated by Sunni terrorists (as usual) precisely to sow the seeds of civil war.
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