At least 35 people were killed and 62 injured, said Lt. Abdul-Aziz Mohammed in Habbaniyah, which lies between the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah — both hotbeds of the insurgency.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on battles between Sunni groups in Anbar province west of Baghdad. Militants have increased attacks against Sunni leaders who support the government and denounce violence.
The Sunni Arab jihadis hate a lot of people inside Iraq: Americans, Coalition allies, Shias (naturally), Kurds, and now other Sunni Arabs who aren't convinced that the Viking funeral ride the jihadis want to take them on is the wisest thing to do.
If the government with our help can keep Shia death squads from killing Sunni Arabs who are just trying to live their lives (and I imagine that most who are left in Iraq can't afford to flee and so are not the ones who benefitted from Saddam's rule), such Sunni jihadi attacks will help move the Sunni Arabs from sympathy toward the insurgents and terrorists to neutrality; and from neutrality to sympathy and support for the government.
It really is time for Iraqis in central Iraq to unite and expel the common enemy of a prosperous and free Iraq.
