Iraqis could unite -- against U.S.
AYATOLLAH'S MESSAGE: UNITED NATIONS IS LEGITIMATE, OCCUPIERS ARE NOT
by Daniel Sneider

The struggle for Iraq's future is not only about who holds power. It is about who has the legitimacy to rule.

The Shiites are wary of what they see as an American attempt to install a client regime. They fear a permanent American military presence and control over Iraq's oil. ``The occupiers' two major aims are to loot all of Iraq's national wealth and to control conflicts in the world by controlling Iraqi oil,'' wrote a commentator in the newspaper of the Shiite Daawa party last month.

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