DAMASCUS, Syria, July 29 (UPI) -- The political situation in Iraq is frustrating the Iraqi people to the point that a revolution is on the horizon, an anti-American cleric said from Damascus.
Harith al-Dhari, the head of the Association of Muslim Scholars and staunch critic of U.S. activity in Iraq, told the Emirati newspaper The National from Damascus that frustration was reaching a boiling point in Iraq.
"The Iraqi people are very angry and there will be renewed resistance and we may finally see a revolution against the occupation and this government that has spread so much suffering," he told the newspaper.
Iraq has been without a government since March 7 elections as rival lawmakers bicker over who will become the next speaker of parliament, president and prime minister.
Dhari warned that the resistance movement in Iraq wasn't defeated despite a pending end to U.S. military activity in the country.
"The resistance isn't defeated, it is still present and active, it still inflicts casualties on the forces of occupation," he said.
Meanwhile, Iraqi insurgents stormed two police checkpoints in a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad, killing more than six security personnel and 10 civilians in a Thursday attack, The New York Times reports.
The Times said that gunmen after the attack raised the flag of al-Qaida in Iraq over the checkpoint.
