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'Hope for the coming of the promised one is all most Shiites have left,' writes Juan Cole, 'and the desecration of sacred sites associated with the Mahdi (analogous to the return of Christ for Christians) is especially likely to set off reprisal attacks against Sunnis. Since the guerrilla strategy in Iraq is to provoke a Sunni-Shiite civil war as a way of making the country ungovernable and forcing the Americans out, attacks on symbols of the Twelfth Imam are especially effective.'

http://electroniciraq.net/news/opeds/Everyday_Apocalypse_in_Iraq-3130.shtml



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