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The Shiite "Menace"


(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - Now the critics are telling us that Iraq's Shiite majority will turn it into another intolerant Islamic republic like Iran. The Shiite demonstrators in Iraqi streets represent a highly organized minority, many of whom are affiliated with, infiltrated by, and financed by Tehran. They are analogous to the Soviet-oriented communists in immediate post-World War II Italy and France. They too had a foreign patron, with foreign sources of money, agents, influence, and a coherent ideology. They too made a bid for power. And failed.
2003-04-02 00:00:00
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