Report from Haditha

[MikeWM]

Interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian:

‘Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel’
guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1553969,00.html

The alarming bit for me (bar the descriptions of Islamic law, a headmaster whipped 190 times) was:

Now their strategy [the insurgents] appears to be to wait out the Americans, calculating they will leave within a few years, and then escalate what some consider the real war against a government led by Shias, a rival sect which Sunni extremists consider apostasy.

It doesn’t seem likely that peace will come soon, whether the Americans stay or go

Mike