"Threat of terrorism and attacks on Americans just went way up"

The destruction of the holiest Shiite Islam site has huge repercussions. America is being held directly responsible for this act, since it is under their watch that this has occurred. ...

According to mideast scholar and historian Juan Cole:

Shiites came out in the thousands all over the Shiite south on Wednesday to protest the bombing of the Askariiyah shrine in Samarra. A Sunni mosque was set afire. and a Sunni clergyman was assassinated.

The hardline Shiite Mahdi Army has come out of Sadr City and is all over Baghdad. They are clashing with Sunnis in Basra.

Sunni leader Tariq al- Hashimi threatened reprisals for reprisal killings.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim blamed the US for holding back the Badr Corps.

Grand Ayatollah Sistani called for nonviolent street protests that he must know won't be nonviolent.

Iran is blaming Bush.

The threat of terrorism and attacks on Americans just went way up.

Great... Before, we only had a fourth of Iraq pissed at us. With the Shiites pissed, we now have all of it pissed... with Iran to boot, as though they needed anything else to be upset about. Hell, even Saddam kept the sacred sites secure.

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