Omar Fadhil on the Shia Armageddon

Cliff May points out that Omar Fadhil, co-founder of the blog Iraq the Model, in the Philadelphia Inquirer proposed the same idea last Friday that Bernard Lewis does today in the WSJ (immediately below).

As an observer of the conflict from Iraq, I see the signs that Iran may be starting to launch the mullahs' version of an Armageddon, exploiting the religious beliefs of devout Shiites in the region. While this may sound more the stuff of prophecies than international relations, it is important to understand - especially in countries such as Lebanon and Iraq that have large Shiite populations.

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