[news] Two years after the fall of Saddam, the resistance controls all major roads

[Resist!ca]

"Sectarian attacks by fundamentalist Sunni fighters, whom Iraqis refer to as Salafi or Wahhabi, have been expected during the lead-up to the Shia feast of Ashura commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 680AD. Suicide bombers among the Ashura crowds in Baghdad and Karbala killed 171 people last year. The borders of Iraq are to be shut next week but this is unlikely actions to stop the bombers."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/13/1219/48470