Arrests of Sunni Leaders Rise in Baghdad

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/middleeast/30adhamiya.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=arrests%20of%20sunni%20leaders%20rise&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Subject: re: Arrests of Sunni Leaders Rise in Baghdad
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

Under cover of "the surge", the Bush administration changed strategy in Iraq, de-emphasizing building non-sectarian national institutions while arming and empowering sectarian forces. Now, the overwhelmingly-Shiite Iraqi army is eliminating the Sunni Awakening movement. The U.S. is not innocent in this new chapter of the Iraqi civil struggle. Soon we will be faced with the challenge to either remain to hold the lid on the violence, or withdraw from a new civil bloodbath.

Barry Levine