Sat. July 04, 2009
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The National
July 4, 2009
Voice of America
July 4, 2009
Some
Sunnis are also not pleased by
Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the prospect of the ethnically divided, oil rich
city of Kirkuk going to the
Kurds, ...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
July 3, 2009
Prison Planet.com
July 3, 2009
The National
July 3, 2009
Some reports in other Sunni neighbourhoods indicated that celebratory gunfire ensued, but in Aisha Bakkar, the festivities were limited to fireworks and ...
The Australian
July 3, 2009
"Over the centuries Shi'ite men of
religion have been far more independent of the state than the men of religion in the
Sunni world. ...
Washington Post
July 3, 2009
Biden helped author a 2006 plan to split
Iraq into self-ruled
Sunni, Shi'ite and
Kurdish enclaves. That plan angered many
Iraqis, and was quietly shelved as ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
July 2, 2009
The numbers are still far lower than previous years, and the
bombings by suspected
Sunni extremists are not triggering retaliatory attacks from
Shiite ...
Reuters
July 2, 2009
The referendum was due to take place before the end of July, according to a deal reached in the
Iraqi Parliament last year that placated
Sunni Arab groups ...
The Gazette (Montreal)
July 2, 2009
Bay Area Indymedia
July 2, 2009
A lot of the violence in the south is among
Shiite militias; there are few
Sunnis, and their freedom of movement is constrained (a Tikriti "r" is different ...
New York Times
July 1, 2009
... was celebrated
Tuesday, has been an evolving process, growing out of the success of the American force buildup and the
Sunni Awakening movement in 2007. ...
New York Times
July 1, 2009
Beliefnet.com
July 1, 2009
Those events have become a mainstay in much of
Muslim popular
culture (including throughout the
Sunni world),
literature and imagination and have done the ...
Sydney Morning Herald
July 1, 2009
Shi'ites account for about 20 per cent of
Pakistan's mostly
Sunni Muslim population of 160 million and the two groups have usually coexisted peacefully. ...
Lincoln Journal Star
July 1, 2009
Another flashpoint is between the
Shiites and
Sunni Muslims.
Sunnis, who held power under former dictator
Saddam Hussein, are resentful at being shut off ...
BBC News
June 30, 2009
NPR
June 30, 2009
Those include: The readiness of
Iraq's
army; the lingering anger of the
Sunni minority; tensions between Arabs and
Kurds; millions of refugees; ...
Sydney Morning Herald
June 30, 2009
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
June 30, 2009
Although al-
Maliki seemed happy to strike deals with
Sunni leaders in a province such as
Al-Anbar, where
Sunnis are the majority, it is unclear whether he ...
Monsters and Critics.com
June 29, 2009
Reuters
June 28, 2009
Shi'ite-ruled
Iran is often accused of arming and funding Shi'ite
militias who have killed
Sunnis, a charge
Tehran denies. "Also, if the
Americans pull out, ...
Irish Times
June 28, 2009
Sunni ARAB leaders are gleeful over deepening divisions within
Iran's
Shia regime, but they are fearful of popular risings on their own streets. ...
India Daily
June 28, 2009
Xinhua
June 28, 2009
Their job was so shameful in
anti-US Sunni Arab communities. Security members were target for all insurgent groups in the once feared insurgency zone of ...
Jakarta Post
June 28, 2009
However, it would be hard to believe that the protests have nothing to do with the underlying
Sunni-
Shiite rivalry, and the anti-West stance of President ...
Reuters
June 28, 2009
Xinhua
June 26, 2009
Beirut, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese
Sunni majority leader SaadHariri met overnight with chief of Lebanese
Shiite armed group
Hezbollah Hasan Nasrallah ...
Los Angeles Times
June 26, 2009
Reuters
June 17, 2009
Los Angeles Times
June 12, 2009
At the height of the country's sectarian warfare in 2006 and 2007, assassinations and
suicide bombings escalated violence and tensions among
Sunnis and ...
DemocracyArsenal.org
June 26, 2009
... that the
Sunnis are not going to perceive themselves as 20% of the country disenfranchised. The
Sunni also looks to the
Americans as their fail-safe, ...
TPMCafé
June 26, 2009
He rejects the idea that
Israel's salvation lies in alignment with the Saudis and other "sclerotic"
Sunni regimes. Instead Israel should look toward ...
Antiwar.com
June 26, 2009
We've been told over and again that these
Sunnis served a critical purpose, stanching the bloodshed long enough to declare victory over
al-Qaeda and to ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
June 25, 2009
Aljazeera.net
June 25, 2009
Saad
al-Hariri, the
Sunni Muslim leader of the rival March 14 parliamentary bloc, was one of the politicians who backed Berri's return for a 17th year as ...
Daily Kos
June 25, 2009
The fundamental difference between the Shi'a and the
Sunni is one of class. The Shi'a believe in egalitarianism, the
Sunni believe in a class society. ...
AsiaOne
June 25, 2009
Repeatedly accused of
kidnapping and murdering
Sunnis, the
militia was finally routed by US-backed
Iraqi forces in major military operations between March ...
Stars and Stripes
June 24, 2009
New York Times
June 24, 2009
