Iraq Shi'ite leader calls for own region in south

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO125225.htm

NAJAF, Aug 11 (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi'ite leader said on Thursday Shi'ites should have their own federal region taking in all of the Shi'ite areas in oil-rich southern Iraq.

"Regarding federalism, we think that it is necessary to form one entire region (in the central and southern part )of the south," said Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of one of the Shi'ite parties leading the government.

His comments came shortly after the commander of his Iranian-trained Badr movement militia said Shi'ites should have their own federal zone in the south.

"Federalism has to be in all of Iraq. They are trying to prevent the Shi'ites from enjoying their own federalism," Hadi al-Amery, head of the Badr movement, told tens of thousands of Shi'ites gathered in the sacred southern city of Najaf.

"We have to persist in forming one region in the south or else we will regret it. What have we got from the central government except death?" he said.

[Clark2008]

1. Huh?

Why, exactly?
The Shi'ites are the majority - aren't they in control of the Sunnah and the Kurdish now?

[LiberalVoice]

2. Sunni not Sunnah.

Sunnah :noun: (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran

:hi: :)

[Clark2008]

5. Either spelling is correct.

I should know, my ex husband is Sunnah Muslim.

I believe he'd know how to spell it.

[bribri16]

4. Just like many predicted. Now we will have three terrorist ridden

areas to deal with instead of one Iraq.

[dubyaD40web]

3. And the sheeple still think * is a uniter!

LOL

[TankLV]

6. I wonder whay his ties to bushco are. This area entirely encompasses the

oil producing region and the boundary (coincidentally!) just happens to stop where the oil production stops!

Just another in an amazing string of coincidences!

So now, no matter what the Iraqi People decide to do with the oil revenue, these fucks can whine and claim infringement of some imagined right to those profits (which just happen to 100% go to Halliburton & Cheney and Bunkerboy).