Brian Whittaker pulls through with a good discussion of the anti-Shiite car bombing:
The killing of Ayatollah Hakim, the country’s most prominent Shia cleric, has been likened to murdering the Pope, but it’s more serious than that because popes these days have little real influence.
Ayatollah Hakim was also head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), the leading Shia political organisation. A better comparison would be the murder of the Austrian archduke that sparked the first world war.
The Guardian may have evident biases, but why can’t any single American paper provide this kind of analysis to let us know what’s going on? The American press thinks it’s enough to treat all questions as agnostic (Were Saddam loyalists responsible for the bombing? They deny it. We don’t know for sure.) when for those involved, it’s not a matter of Saddam loyalists vs. the good guys.
No comments have been added to this post yet.