BBC: Second Sunni cleric assassinated in Baghdad

MaineDem

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Mon Sep-20-04 07:21 AM
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BBC: Second Sunni cleric assassinated in Baghdad

Edited on Mon Sep-20-04 07:22 AM by MaineDem

More soon.

Headline but no link yet.

(It's on the "Latest" section of http://news.bbc.co.uk/ as just the headline.

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MaineDem

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Mon Sep-20-04 07:45 AM
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1. Here's the link

Edited on Mon Sep-20-04 07:49 AM by MaineDem

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3672800.stm

Muslim Scholars' Association member Sheikh Hazem Zeidi was shot dead at an isolated Sunni mosque in the Shia suburb of Sadr City on Sunday night.

Sheikh Muhammad Jadu was gunned down on his way to noon prayers in the mixed al-Baya neighbourhood on Monday.

Baghdad has witnessed several killings of clerics since the 2003 war, fuelling fears of possible Sunni-Shia conflict.

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Aidoneus

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Mon Sep-20-04 07:49 AM
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2. Negroponte & his pet dictator up to old tricks

The BBC tells a lie about a certain other matter, however.

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bemildred

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Mon Sep-20-04 07:51 AM
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3. Yup. "Divide and rule". Or try anyway.

The Muslim Scholars have been annoying in their lack of
obeisance to the puppet rulers anyway.

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jumpstart33

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Mon Sep-20-04 07:56 AM
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4. But I thought it was the Shia who were killing and kidnapping Americans?

Here we are in another war in which we don't know who the enemy is.

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jsheriff

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Mon Sep-20-04 09:35 AM
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5. Most Kidnappers are probably Sunni

Most of the kidnapping seems to be done by Sunni's, either native Iraqis or Al Queda. Not all, but most. Part of the Sunni strategy to keep the entire country in chaos.

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Dhalgren

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Mon Sep-20-04 09:38 AM
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6. That appears to be the US "strategy", too...

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