Sunni Tide Slowly Turning...
First, the Sunni leadership called for a cessation of violence for the December 15, 2005 election. Then the Sunni's turned out in heavy numbers to vote, and then took to peaceful protests to dispute election results while calling for national unity. Once the elections were declared legitimate, the Sunnis unexpectedly negotiated a coalition agreement with the Kurds. Now, even more Sunni's are turning against Al-Zarqawi.
Yesterday was a bloody day in Iraq, which of course made the headlines in most US newspapers. What didn't get picked up by many papers was this angle on the story (courtesy of the Hartford Courant)...
Enraged Sunnis Blame Al-Qaida
Carnage In Ramadi, A Hotbed Of Iraq Insurgency, Turns Many Against Al-Zarqawi
The residents of Ramadi had had enough. As they frantically searched the city's hospital for relatives killed and wounded in bomb blasts at a police recruiting station Thursday, they did something they had never publicly done: They blamed al-Qaida in Iraq, the insurgent movement led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"Neither the Americans nor the Shiites have any benefit in doing this. It is Zarqawi," said Khalid Saadi, 42, who came to the hospital looking for his brother, Muhammed. Saadi said he hoped that sympathies in the city, considered a hotbed of support for the Sunni Arab insurgency, would turn against al-Zarqawi's faction.
The surviving police recruits showed where their sympathies lay - after the bombing, they got back in line to continue the screening process, the U.S. military said.
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The Ramadi residents responded to the attack with fury. Nearly everyone at the scene said they believed it had been ordered by al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida in Iraq, considered the most ruthless and best-organized faction in the insurgent movement.
"People in this city helped Zarqawi a lot, and I hope this would make them change their minds," said Saad Abid Ali, a captain in the Iraqi army hit in the legs by shrapnel.
Another group of people beat a doctor in the hospital after he told an Iraqi journalist that U.S. forces were to blame for the attacks.
Compare the paragraph directly above the ellipses to this one from a CBS News story:
In the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital, Marine Capt. Jeffrey S. Pool said police recruits got back in line to continue the screening process after a suicide bomber attacked. They were apparently desperate for a relatively well-paying job in the impoverished area.
Unlike the story above, the CBS/AP reporter cannot comprehend anything other than desparate poverty motivating police recruits. The fact that they might want to fight for their new freedom, to make their country a better place despite the dangers doesn't even register a possibility with the reporter. What do you expect, they make the same claims about the US military.
Yesterday was a bloody day in Iraq, which of course made the headlines in most US newspapers. What didn't get picked up by many papers was this angle on the story (courtesy of the Hartford Courant)...
Enraged Sunnis Blame Al-Qaida
Carnage In Ramadi, A Hotbed Of Iraq Insurgency, Turns Many Against Al-Zarqawi
The residents of Ramadi had had enough. As they frantically searched the city's hospital for relatives killed and wounded in bomb blasts at a police recruiting station Thursday, they did something they had never publicly done: They blamed al-Qaida in Iraq, the insurgent movement led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"Neither the Americans nor the Shiites have any benefit in doing this. It is Zarqawi," said Khalid Saadi, 42, who came to the hospital looking for his brother, Muhammed. Saadi said he hoped that sympathies in the city, considered a hotbed of support for the Sunni Arab insurgency, would turn against al-Zarqawi's faction.
The surviving police recruits showed where their sympathies lay - after the bombing, they got back in line to continue the screening process, the U.S. military said.
...
The Ramadi residents responded to the attack with fury. Nearly everyone at the scene said they believed it had been ordered by al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida in Iraq, considered the most ruthless and best-organized faction in the insurgent movement.
"People in this city helped Zarqawi a lot, and I hope this would make them change their minds," said Saad Abid Ali, a captain in the Iraqi army hit in the legs by shrapnel.
Another group of people beat a doctor in the hospital after he told an Iraqi journalist that U.S. forces were to blame for the attacks.
Compare the paragraph directly above the ellipses to this one from a CBS News story:
In the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital, Marine Capt. Jeffrey S. Pool said police recruits got back in line to continue the screening process after a suicide bomber attacked. They were apparently desperate for a relatively well-paying job in the impoverished area.
Unlike the story above, the CBS/AP reporter cannot comprehend anything other than desparate poverty motivating police recruits. The fact that they might want to fight for their new freedom, to make their country a better place despite the dangers doesn't even register a possibility with the reporter. What do you expect, they make the same claims about the US military.
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