For many months Al Qaida in Iraq has tried to stir up a civil war between Sunnis and Shi'as. They have told us so. In order to provoke the usually apolitical branch of Iraq's Shi'a Islam, a truly sadistic Al Qaida network has blown up hundreds and hundreds of Shiite worshippers at mosques and outdoor markets with car bombs. The single most notorious act blasted the top off the minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra on April 1, 2005. More than any other barbarity, this act of vandalism is responsible for the near-civil war now going on between Sunni and Shi'a militias. Because the Great Mosque is a Shi'a site of worship dating back to the Abbasid Dynasty of the 9th century, it was always assumed that the Sunni extremists did it --- Al Qaida or the Baathists. But that assumption is now in doubt. Last week it was revealed that Ahmadinejad's regime in Tehran has been actively supporting and training both sides in Iraq  to commit atrocities in order to stir up a civil war....(Read Full Post)