30 Dec 2006
Hugh Fitzgerald
"Marginally enhances Iraq's prospects,and ours..."
More likely to do two things: First, create a Sunni martyr, a permanent symbol of the loss of Sunni power to the Rafidie dogs, the Shi'a.. Second, because the Shi'a rulers insisted on this quick execution, and refused to wait until the trial, already begun, devoted to Saddam Hussein's mass murdering of the Kurds, this will be taken by the Kurds as a symbol, as it should be, of the essential Arab indifference or disinterest in what happened to them at Arab hands.
Both will contribute to the break-up of Iraq. Both will help to divide and demoralize the Camp of Islam.
Thus the execution, done as it was done by Muslims themselves, will help the Camp of Infidels.