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Council bosses in Rotherham who were criticised for failing to protect 1,400 young girls from?grooming gangs?have gone on to become Government advisers, bankers and an "executive coach and mentor".
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The Labour MP who represents the?grooming hot spot of Rotherham, Sarah Champion,?has performed a U-turn to demand a?national inquiry?into the scandal.
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Iraqi Guerriillas Blew Up The Domed Askariyah Shrine

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday February 22, 2006 11:57author by redjade Report this post to the editors

Juan Cole: 'The guerriillas blew up the domed Askariyah shrine in Samarra.'
Before...
Before...

Tuesday was an apocalyptic day in Iraq. I am not normally exactly sanguine about the situation there. But the atmospherics are very, very bad, in a way that most Western observers will miss.

[....]

The guerriillas blew up the domed Askariyah shrine in Samarra. The shrine, sacred to Shiiites, honors 3 Imams or holy descendants of the Prophet. They are Ali al-Hadi, Hasan al-Askari, and his disappeared son Muhammad al-Mahdi. Thousands of Shiiites demonstrated in Samarra and in East Baghdad, against this desecration.

The Twelth Imam or Mahdi is believed by Shiites to have disappeared into a supernatural realm (just as Christians believe in the ascension of Christ) from which he will someday return.

Some Shiites think his second coming is imminent. Muqtada all-Sadr and his followers are among them. They are livid about this attack on the shrine of the Mahdi's father.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is also a firm believer in the imminent coming of the Mahdi. I worry that Iranian anger will boil over as a result of this bombing of a Shiite millenarian symbol.

Both Sunnis and Americans will be blamed. Very bad...

read more at
http://www.juancole.com/2006/02/shiite-protests-roil-ir....html

and http://www.juancole.com/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   images: before & after     redjade    Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:58 
   updates & info...     redjade    Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:27 
   Who gains ?     ray    Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:46 
   In full agreement     MichaelY    Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:51 
   definition of Guerriilla     redjade    Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:55 
   the enemy of my enemy...     redjade    Wed Feb 22, 2006 13:06 
   75 Sunni mosques have been attacked     redjade    Wed Feb 22, 2006 22:59 
   check out da bbc website     ok    Thu Feb 23, 2006 03:13 
   Totally agree with you redjade     Paul    Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:59 
 10   Who Gains from the Mosque bombings     NOddy Big Ears    Thu Feb 23, 2006 14:59 
 11   Iraq is not Northern Ireland.     redjade    Thu Feb 23, 2006 17:45 
 12   A totally paranoid vision     Paul    Thu Feb 23, 2006 18:11 
 13   Allies are Suspects     Onion Bhaji    Fri Feb 24, 2006 00:44 
 14   Thats halal folks     Dublinfidel    Fri Feb 24, 2006 14:26 
 15   FOXnews: is Iraq Civil War a Good Thing?     redjade    Sat Feb 25, 2006 01:41 
 16   Is it Civil War yet?     redjade    Sat Feb 25, 2006 13:49 
 17   the Other Sectarian Violence     redjade    Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:58 
 18   1,300 Dead in Iraq - Sectarian Violence     redjade    Tue Feb 28, 2006 18:17 
 19   Rumsfeld says Civil War is 'Exaggerated'     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 16:15 
 20   Iraq Gov't stopped counting execution-style shootings     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 16:22 
 21   FoxNews: 'All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?'     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 16:42 
 22   Not a Civil War     redjade    Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:17 
 23   American Merc arrested with arms in Iraq     redjade    Wed Mar 15, 2006 20:09 


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