Petrel Resources - moderated discussion/research part II
Sharebuff - Sat, 30 Dec 06 :
well the BBC is not very upbeat that his death will change very much.....
"If anything, his death will tend to strengthen the hand of Sunni insurgents in recruiting people to their cause. They ask: "What do we have to lose?" as they see their Shia rivals running the armed forces and the police.
For these hardliners, the death of Saddam is "victor's justice", carried out amid the extraordinary facilities of the high-security, sanitised international Green Zone. The imposition of the death penalty - an inherently cruel and inhumane punishment - in the wake of an unfair trial is indefensible
The transparency of the trial, every stage of which was broadcast, does not change their view. The new sectarianism, unleashed in earnest after the destruction of the Samarra shrine in February 2006, is now altering the geography of the capital, Baghdad, as militias mark out their zones of influence. The celebrations in Shia areas at the death of Saddam will only make these divisions worse.
The celebrations of those who do welcome his death are real of course. No-one can deny the pleasure now felt by many who suffered at the hands of Saddam's tyrannical regime".
In the context of PET, social and economic stability is still a long way away. HCL or no HCL its the operating environment that counts. The evidence suggests that if the foreign forces left tomorrow the sectarian violence would continue since its ordinary people who are the real victims, the 'soft targets' in the religous power game.
