Indie journalist: Iraq 'heading toward a catastrophe'

Evan Derkacz
May 19, 2005Health

"I neither read nor listen to corporate media drivel concerning Iraq...but today I wonder what they could possibly be saying to justify the failed occupation of Iraq on this horrible day..." writes independent journalist, Dahr Jamail, in his latest dispatch after a volley of killings between Sunni and Shiite prompted the head of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars to declare: "We are heading towards a catastrophe, only God knows when it will end, this is a warning from us." Jamail comments: "There has been a low-grade civil war going on for quite some time-but now the veil has been ripped off by the statements made by Dhari. All Sunni mosques in Iraq will be closed for three days...an ominous symbol of things to come." (Dahr Jamail)

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