{"id":53831,"date":"2014-07-14T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53831"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T23:27:36","slug":"4000-shiite-militia-sent-to-ramadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53831","title":{"rendered":"4,000 Shi’ite militia sent to Ramadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that 4000 Shi’ite volunteers are being airlifted to the Iraqi city of Ramadi to help the government troops there battle Sunni insurgents of the Islamic Nation;<\/p>\n

The vast majority of volunteers are Shiites who have answered a call from the country\u2019s top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to defend Iraq from the militants who have overrun of much of the country\u2019s north and west over the past month. The Sunni militant blitz is led by the Islamic State extremist group, which has unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state ruled by Shariah law in the territory it controls straddling the Iraq-Syria border.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s reliance on Shiite militias \u2014 who have deployed in sizeable numbers to several cities across the country \u2014 to help counter the threat from Sunni militants has ramped up sectarian tensions, and helped fuel fears that Iraq could return to the wholesale sectarian bloodletting that engulfed the country in 2006 and 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if it wasn’t a civil war before now, it will become one soon enough. But then that’s what they want at the ISIS or ISIL or the Islamic Caliphate or what ever it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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