The President of Iran has taken out a page from Adolf Hitler and his plans to overthow all of Europe. Hitler's Enabling Act was the Burning of the Reichstag Feb 27,1933. With this single act Hitler effectively ended democracy in Germany and establish his legal dictatorship over the third reichr. The President of Iran and his henchmen probably timed this even to the day and meeting time that Hitler and his plotters set everthing that brought him to power and started WWII. Regardless of what may or may not be reported in the coming days I know in my spirit that he has his hand in this and with this acts he hopes 1) to end democracy in Iraq and the middle east and reestablish the Caliph. 2) He hopes drive the US and the British out of Iraq so they can not attack him from that side. 3) he hopes to nuke Israel and 4) He hopes to try to force the 12 Iman to appear because he knows that his plan will all but insure a world war brought against him and those that would side with him.,
Mosque
Attack Pushes Iraq Toward Civil War
Feb
22, 4:45 PM (ET)
By
ZIAD KHALAF SAMARRA, Iraq (AP)
Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday,
destroying its golden dome and triggering more
than 90 reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. The president warned
that extremists were pushing the country toward civil war.
With the
gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, leaders
on both sides called for calm and many Shiites lashed out at the United States
as partly to blame.
But the
string of back-and-forth attacks seemed to push Iraq closer to all-out civil
war than at any point in the three years since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam
Hussein.
"We are
facing a major conspiracy that is targeting Iraq's unity," said President
Jalal Talabani, a Kurd. "We should all stand hand in hand to prevent the
danger of a civil war."
President
Bush pledged American help to restore the mosque after the bombing north of Baghdad,
which dealt a severe blow to U.S. efforts to keep Iraq from falling deeper into
sectarian violence.
"The
terrorists in Iraq have again proven that they are enemies of all faiths and of
all humanity," Bush said. "The world must stand united against them,
and steadfast behind the people of Iraq."
British Prime
Minister Tony Blair also condemned the bombing and pledged funds toward the
shrine's reconstruction.
U.S.
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. George
Casey, called the attack a deliberate attempt to foment sectarian strife and
warned it was a "critical moment for Iraq."
No one was
reported injured in the bombing of the shrine in Samarra.
But at least
18 people, including three Sunni clerics, were killed in the reprisal attacks
that followed, mainly in Baghdad and predominantly Shiite provinces to the
south, according to the Iraqi Islamic Party, the country's largest Sunni
political group.
Major Sunni
groups joined in condeming the attack, and a leading Sunni politician, Tariq
al-Hashimi, urged clerics and politicians to calm the situation "before it
spins out of control."
The
country's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, sent instructions
to his followers forbidding attacks on Sunni mosques, and called for seven
days of mourning.
But he
hinted, as did Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, that religious militias could
be given a bigger security role if the government cannot protecting holy
shrines - an ominous sign of the Shiite reaction ahead.
Both Sunnis
and the United States fear the rise of such militias, which the disaffected
minority views as little more than death squads. American commanders believe
they undercut efforts to create a professional Iraqi army and police force - a
key step toward the eventual drawdown of U.S. forces.
Some Shiite political leaders already were
angry with the United States because it has urged them to form a government in
which nonsectarian figures control the army and police. Khalilzad warned this
week - in a statement clearly aimed at Shiite hard-liners - that America would
not continue to support institutions run by sectarian groups with links to
armed militias.
One top
Shiite political leader accused Khalilzad of sharing blame for the attack on
the shrine in Samarra.
"These
statements ... gave green lights to terrorist groups. And, therefore, he shares
in part of the responsibility," said Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the former commander of
its militia.
The interior
minister, who controls the security forces that Sunnis accuse of widepsread
abuses, is a member of al-Hakim's party.
The new
tensions came as Iraq's various factions have been struggling to assemble a
government after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.
The Shiite
fury sparked by Wednesday's bombings - the third major attack against Shiite
targets in as many days - raised the likelihood that Shiite religious parties
will reject U.S. demands to curb militias.
The Askariya
shrine, also known as the Golden Mosque, contains the tombs of two revered
Shiite imams, who are considered by Shiites to be among the successors of the
Prophet Muhammad.
No group
claimed responsibility for the 6:55 a.m. assault on the shrine in Samarra, 60
miles north of Baghdad, carried out by four insurgents posing as police. But
suspicion fell on Sunni extremist groups.
The top of
the dome, which was completed in 1905, collapsed into a crumbly mess, leaving
just traces of gold showing through the rubble. Part of the shrine's tiled
northern wall also was damaged.
Thousands of
demonstrators crowded near the wrecked shrine, and Iraqis picked through the
debris, pulling out artifacts and copies of the Muslim holy book, the Quran,
which they waved, along with Iraqi flags.
"This
criminal act aims at igniting civil strife," said Mahmoud al-Samarie, a
28-year-old builder. "We demand an investigation so that the criminals who
did this be punished. If the government fails to do so, then we will take up
arms and chase the people behind this attack."
U.S. and
Iraqi forces surrounded the Samarra shrine and searched nearby houses. About
500 soldiers were sent to Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad to prevent clashes.
National
Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said 10 people were detained for
questioning about the bombing. The Interior Ministry put the number at nine and
said they included five guards.
In the hours
after the attack, more than 90 Sunni mosques were attacked with automatic
rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, burned or taken over by Shiites, the
Iraqi Islamic Party said.
Large
protests erupted in Shiite parts of Baghdad and in cities throughout the Shiite
heartland to the south. In Basra, Shiite militants traded rifle and
rocket-propelled grenade fire with guards at the office of the Iraqi Islamic
Party. Smoke billowed from the building.
Shiite protesters
later set fire to a Sunni shrine containing the seventh century tomb of Talha
bin Obeid-Allah, a companion of Muhammad, on the outskirts of Basra.
Police found
11 bodies of Sunni Muslims, most shot in the head and including two Egyptians,
in Basra, police Capt. Mushtaq Kadhim said.
Protesters
in Najaf, Kut and Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City also marched through
the streets by the thousands, many shouting anti-American and anti-Israeli
slogans and burning those nations' flags.
This is part of Iran's fifth
column and it is more than suspicious that these people were gassed up and
ready to go after the bombing