'In fact, the mosque was attacked and the worshippers massacred for a simple reason-it was part of a continuing effort to foment "civil war" in Iraq, as planned by the Straussian neocons. It should be noted that "U.S. officials had been quietly praising Sadr's group in recent weeks because of its calls for calm in the wake of the bombing of a Sunni mosque in Samarra that sparked a wave of sectarian violence," praise at odds with the plan to divide Iraq into at least three Bantustans based along ethnic and religious lines'
