What a cluster fata. I often have to think, are the ISIS Sunni or Shia? They are Sunni but it seems they are both almost equally awful.
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The group’s startling expansion and lust for blood are only fuelling demands for a more forceful international response. But many of the West’s potential or de facto allies are scarcely more savoury. Some of the most capable anti-IS forces are the Shia militias that once fought American soldiers and waged a vicious sectarian war against Sunnis.
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On the same day as the video of Mr Sotloff was uploaded, images circulated of men, allegedly from Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a notorious Shia militia, posing triumphantly with the charred bodies of Sunnis in Iraq. On August 22nd Shia gunmen shot 68 Sunnis dead in a mosque in Diyala province. Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby, has accused government-backed Shia militias of kidnapping and killing scores of Sunni civilians this year.
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http://www.economist.com/news/middle...a-poses-tricky
Of course when we were having the big debate here about the invasion of Iraq, this was all predictable. To bad we couldn't just leave them alone to settle their own problems. Every time we interfere it just becomes worse.