Yazidi Massacre

Count me as skeptical that the massacre of the ancient Yazidi sect West of Mosul was actually perpetrated by "Al qaeda in Iraq", as the administration is reporting. I think it far more likely that this is a regional manifestation of the civil war for the oilfields of Kirkuk, that will pit Sunni against Kurd in the violent endgame for control over the imperial construct known as Iraq. The Yazidi's are a Kurdish sect, and the lands they inhabit are squarely in the zone of contention between Kurdistan and Sunni Iraq. The notion that this was perpetrated under the auspices of some foreign influence seems far fetched. This is a territorial civil war.