(UPI/Washington Times) Claude Salhani - Tuesday's horrifying bomb attacks in Iraq really come as no big surprise. Last month, Coalition forces in Iraq discovered a letter believed to have been authored by Musab Zarkawi, bin Laden's Jordanian chief of operations, outlining pending actions against Iraq's Shiites in order to generate discord between the Shiite and Sunni communities. "We need to bring the Shi'a into the battle because it is the only way to prolong the duration of the fight between the infidels and us," wrote Zarkawi. "Fighting the Shi'a is the way to take the nation to battle."
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