Comments on: British to Pull Troops as Basra gets Bloodier https://andysternberg.com/british-to-pull-troops-as-basra-gets-bloodier/ insights from the digital future Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Andrew Sternberg https://andysternberg.com/british-to-pull-troops-as-basra-gets-bloodier/#comment-41 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:43:30 +0000 http://www.everythingbetween.com/?p=79#comment-41 Thomas Friedman in the 12 Oct NYTimes, on the scale of the civil war between Sunni’s and Shi’ites:

If I were editor of this newspaper, I would have led last Thursday’s issue with the news report, under a big headline, saying that a Sunni Muslim suicide bomber attacked the Shiite mosque in Hilla, Iraq, on Wednesday – the Shiites’ first day of Ramadan – and blew himself up, killing at least 25 worshipers and wounding more than 87.

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