"There is a fight going on between the political groups for power and control over oil, a fight that is also fuelled by external parties. Then, in the next few months, there will be the election of the members of the Council of the Provinces. What is happening in Bassora is actually fuelled by this: who is going to rule and control the oil-producing city?". This is the opinion of the bishop of Kirkuk, mgr. Louis Sako, about the fights going on in Bassora and Baghdad between the Shiite militias of the radical imam Moqtada a-Sadr and the Iraqi army with the support of US helicopters and aircrafts. "Security he states to SIR is not stable partly because the members of the police and army belong to the parties and militias. Rumour has it that the fights going in Bassora, a Shiite city, are the prelude to those of Mossul, a Sunni stronghold". (continued) (dnr)” ” ” “
