The Hill: Fears grow of new sectarian war in Iraq
The Obama administration is growing worried about new sectarian bloodshed in Iraq once the military takes back territory from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Officials in the Shiite-majority government aligned with Iran are making moves to consolidate power, quietly purging Sunnis from the rolls of the military.
Several hundred senior Sunni officials in the Iraqi military have been fired and replaced with members of the Badr Corps, a Shiite militia created and supported by Iran, according to a U.S. official and sources in the region.
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has also fired several thousands of other Sunni security forces in the past several weeks while continuing to arrest and “disappear” thousands of Sunnis, the sources said.
WNU Editor: It dos not take a genius to figure out that this is not going to end well.
1 comment:
The disintegration of Iraq into its religious subgroups will certainly continue as the article predicts. I also agree that Iran will exercise influence in Iraq through the Shia militias.
I disagree with the article's assertion that ISIS is a "flash in the pan" or that ISIS will be easily defeated. The Iraqi security forces are hopeless and have no will to fight ISIS. Whether they take Ramadi from ISIS or not in the next few days, they won't hold it long. When ISIS counterattacks Ramadi they will flee, just as they did last year.
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