March 02, 2004

CNN.com - Deadly attacks rock Baghdad, Karbala


What's the story here? A terrorist in Iraq (gasp!) killed Muslim Iraqis on "the holiest Shiite Muslim day of the year."
The devastating strikes come weeks after the coalition found a letter apparently written by Zarqawi to al Qaeda in Afghanistan calling for strikes against Shiites to keep the insurgency alive and taking credit for other attacks.
So we have Baath Party, Sunni, Al-Qaida terrorist causing trouble with Iraqi citizens as the country transitions into a new democracy. The difference between the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan? I don't see one.