Tensions Rises After Mosque Bombing
Strange days in Iraq, or should I say in the media’s coverage of Iraq. Prior to the recent bombing of the Shia mosque, it seems that the war had almost slipped out of view (and it’s still overshadowed by the port hysteria – as Jonah Goldberg said, “…[O]f course, overnight everyone has become an expert in port security”). There is a lot of tension in Baghdad at the moment, as Omar of Iraq the Model reports:
Right now there’s heavy deployment for the police and other security forces with more frequent checkpoints that are stop-searching cars more often than they usually do. Sporadic gunfire is heard in different spots in Baghdad but no one knows for sure if the firing meant clashes or mere angry shooting in the air.
From where I’m sitting now I can hear both Sunni and Shia mosques are condemning the attack through their loudspeakers.
I believe there are foreign terror groups behind this attack and I don’t think local insurgent would do such a thing, simply because this particular shrine had been in Sunni territory for a thousand years and the residents of Samarra had always benefited from the movement of religious tourism and pilgrimage.
Things look scary here in Baghdad…
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