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This is an assumption like not other. For all we know, the wave of violence in Iraq may be a strategy to divide an already battered country into Shiite and Sunni regions to make them more manageable and less likely to be a real competitor to other countries in the region.There was no immediate claim of responsibility, although such coordinated attacks have in the past been a hallmark of The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - al-Qaeda's local branch.
Roger Trinquier, an immensely influential French counter-insurgency expert, suggested in his book Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (1961) (Available online here) three simple principles of Counter Insurgency:1. separate the guerrilla from the population that supports him;Remote controlled bombings masquerading as "suicide bombings" that are carried out by the US, British and Israeli occupation forces fit these principles very neatly. By detonating bombs on a daily basis across Iraq and Afghanistan and via the propaganda organs touting them as being the work of Iraqi/Afghani "suicide bombers" belonging to the insurgency, the occupying military hopes to achieve several goals:
2. occupy the zones that the guerrillas previously operated from, making them dangerous for him and turning the people against the guerrilla movement;
3. coordinate actions over a wide area and for a long enough time that the guerrilla is denied access to the population centers that could support him.
cut off the widespread support base that the insurgency have amongst the Iraqis
create tensions between religious lines, especially by ascribing the faked "suicide attacks" to either Shias or Sunnis.
In other words divide and conquer.
Comment: This is similar to the rapist blaming the victim of the rape. But what else to expect from a US lawmaker these days.