Sunnis would be ‘biggest losers’ of Iraq civil war: Shia leader (Al Hakim)

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Sunnis would be ‘biggest losers’ of Iraq civil war: Shia leader
(AFP)

AMMAN - Iraq’s Sunnis would be the ‘biggest losers’ if the country was engulfed by civil war, top Iraqi Shia leader Abdel Aziz Al Hakim warned Wednesday after talks with Jordan’s king, the palace said.

‘We are proud of our Arab roots but if a civil war were to take place, the biggest losers will be our brothers in the Sunni community,’ Hakim said during the meeting with King Abdullah II, it said in a statement.

Hakim, a cleric and politician, heads the powerful Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a religious party that is a pillar of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s ruling coalition.

‘It is in the interest of the Arabs to stay close to Iraq and understand the nature of the circumstances the country is facing,’ Hakim said.

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1. A threat, as well as a promise

The odds are that Hakim's right but, the Sunnis aren't interested in just letting him walk off with a quarter of Iraq and most of its oil not controlled by Kurds, which is precisely what Hakim wants to do. Peacefully, of course.