Tag: Shia

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2007-04-30 "Iran remains the most significant state sponsor of terrorism and continues to threaten its neighbors and destabilize Iraq by providing weapons, training, advice and funding to select Iraqi Shia militants".
The U.S. State Department's annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" publication.
2007-01-24 In his State of the Union address, Mr Bush lumps Iran with al-Qaeda: "It has also become clear that we face an escalating danger from Shia extremists who...take direction from the regime in Iran," he says. "The Shia and Sunni extremists are different faces of the same totalitarian threat."
2006-11-08 [T]he reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action.
-- Stephen J. Hadley, U.S. national security adviser
2006-10-11 "[W]e expect that Iran, given its obvious interest in Iraq, and given the degree of influence that it has over parts of the Shi'a community in Iraq, is going to now decide to act differently."
"[C]an you really say that Iran is using its political influence over some of the Shi'a political groups to send a message of unity, of a unitary state and a unity among the three major groups competing for political power in Iraq? I don't see that Iran has used its influence in that way."
-- Nicholas Burns, Undersecretary of State, the department's senior policymaker on Iran, at a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations
2006 In the world there are about 230m Shia Muslims
2005-08 Steven Vincent, one of the first American journalists to die in Iraq.
Vincent, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped, tortured, and shot to death in the southern Iraqi city of Basra by militants dressed in police uniform. His abduction and murder came two days after a story about the infiltration of the local security forces by Iranian-backed Shia militias ran with his byline in the New York Times.
2004-12 King Abdullah of Jordan described the emergence of a "Shia crescent" - a radical Islamic movement of Iran, Iraq (potentially), Syria and Hezbollah dedicated to destroying Israel and overthrowing Sunni Arab regimes that work with the West - Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.
2004-10-01 Ayman al-Zawahiri urges Muslims to mount worldwide resistance to "crusader America" and its western allies, in a purported audio recording broadcast by al-Jazeera."Let us start resisting now ... We can't wait or we will be eaten up, country by country.
People of knowledge and experience should organise their efforts and form a leadership for the resistance to combat the crusaders."

He gives a long list of American allies to be targeted, including Britain, Australia, Poland, South Korea and Japan. The inflammatory appeal coincided with the suicide bombing of a Shia mosque in Pakistan which killed at least 25 people.
2004 “What has been impressive to me so far is that Iraqis—whether Kurds or Shia or Sunni or the many other ethnic groups in Iraq—have demonstrated that they really want to live as one in a unified Iraq.”
-- Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Advisor, at a conference
1982-07-08 Sadam Hussein survives an assassination attempt at the hands of Dawa activists in the Shia village of Dujail. He allegedly orders a campaign of reprisals, which see 148 people condemned to death, many more including women and children deported to a remote desert prison, and the demolition of homes and palm groves in a wide swathe around the village.

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