WAR IN LEBANON MAY HAVE DEVASTATING RESULTS IN IRAQ

By Rajan Menon

LONDON: As Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade deadly blows, the Bush administration may have to brace itself for the possibility that the shock waves from the war in Lebanon could wreck its partnership with Iraq’s Shias and make Iraq’s fragmentation well-nigh unavoidable. Anger over Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reached Iraq, whose population is roughly two-thirds Shia. Muqtada Sadr, the firebrand Shia cleric who heads the Al Mahdi militia, was first to rail against the Israeli bombardment and Washington’s fulsome support of it. He continues to do so. On Friday, hundreds of thousands of pro-Sadr supporters flooded Baghdad’s streets, chanting slogans of solidarity with Hezbollah and denouncing Israel and the United States.

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