I posted this on another thread - just goes to show how low these people will stoop to. They will launch violence and attacks covertly then, another party will get the blame (which will get pushed through the media) and a new sectarian war begins. Classic divide and conquer strategy. Then you just have to manage both sides in the war and then allow the favoured party to win: ----------------------------------------------------------------- I would also not put it past certain western security/intelligence agencies. A few years ago, although Iraqi's had their differences that erupted into conflict after Saddam, there were some areas in Iraq where violence did not spread until western forces and specialist operations troops came onto the ground there. I recall a well-known and documented incident near Basrah a few years ago, an incident where British special forces were captured after having fired on Iraqi's, shows to what extent these people are willing to cause fitnah and then blame it on Sunni/Shia tensions. The two special forces men were captured dressed-up as Arabs by Iraqi police before they could escape in a vehicle and were put into police custody. Weapons and remote-control explosive devices were found in their possession - the type used to blow people up while shopping in the market square etc which are then blamed on terrorists: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4264614.stm http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1556 http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2...bizarro-basra/ So alarming was their capture to the Ministry of Defence, it requested british media to avoid publishing their photo's released by Iraqi police. Shortly after, it sent tanks to knock-down the prison and surrounding compound in order to release them (without even consulting the new friendly Iraqi administration in Basrah). Fortunately, photo's do exist on some alternative news websites of the two men that were captured (these are the two men believed to be SAS who were out on a mission acting in the capacity of terrorists): http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles...agedterror.htm Here is another link if the one above did not work: http://terroronthetube.co.uk/wp-cont...sra-712333.jpg http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005.../iraq.military[/URL] Moral of the story? Like Arabs in the days of Lawrence of Arabia came to find out - DO NOT trust interference from outside as the goal and objectives of a Colonialist....sorry, a 'Democracy' loving nation is usually material wealth. Not that trade with them should be prohibited, rather their involvement on the ground should be limited, all of their actions carefully monitored etc. We need to sharpen-up in this regard. What's to say, USA and Israel in a few years decide to ditch the Gulf Arabs and Sunni nations like Pakistan and ally themselves with the Shia of Iran and some other groups in the region like Kurds, Turkmens etc??? It could happen, which is why Sunni's, particularly Arabs need to be careful - just like the West turned on Saddam so quickly, they could easily do the same with others. And lets face it, most of the oil in the middle-east is under areas heavily populated by Shia and Kurdish groups. Does not take a huge jump in imagination to see the West ditching Sunni's and turning on them for strategically important areas dominated by Shia's. Now, factor in the Arab-Spring and what that could mean in the future for certain Sunni-led, Shia dominated countries if the US decide to back Shia - very little the Sunni's can do to stop it. The US/West know almost every week spot amongst us Sunni's due to our long relations. Allahu A'lam