Yes, the situation right now is that the government, since December,
has taken -- how do you say? The face? We call it an iron face. You
don't see the features, you don't see the expression on the face --
towards the protests that are taking place in the country. Since
December, a great many Sunnis in the western provinces, have risen in
order to say that there is a double standard in dealing with many
situations that are sectarian in the way that it is being dealt with.
And since that time, the government has taken a stance that 'I do not
hear, I do not see, I do not speak.' It is like a glancing over all of
these things. And it is staying in place. It is not giving it serious
attention that it needs to give. And since that time, until this very
time, every Friday -- because we have Friday prayers that take place at
the mosques -- every Friday has been a 'terror Friday.' We just don't
know what is going to happen. Sunni enclaves become like camps,
deployment of Army, deployment of Special Forces, deployment of all
military kinds.
-- Iraqi journalist Sahar Issa to Marco Werman (PRI's The World, link is audio) last Wednesday.