Senior Sunni Clerics assasinated in Iraq

[alittlelark]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C2AE88B8-9310-48B4-A273-277BAB196667.htm

Monday 20 September 2004, 15:39 Makka Time, 12:39 GMT

The killings follow the arrest of al-Sadr aide Shaikh Hazim (C)


"Two senior members of an influential Islamic authority in Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars, have been assassinated.

In the first incident, the body of Shaikh Hazim al-Zaidi was found in front of al-Sajjad mosque in Sadr City, a mainly Shia area in eastern Baghdad on Monday, an AMS spokesman told Aljazeera.

In the second incident, later on Monday, Shaikh Muhammad Jadwa was killed by armed men when he left al-Kauthar mosque in the Baya area, west of Baghdad.

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Some Sunni and Shia groups have said they fear their members are being targeted by assassins, perhaps in an attempt to spark sectarian conflict in Iraq."


What was that 'worst case scenario' that intelligence briefing spoke of....hmmmm, Oh Yeah - Civil War.

[David Dunham]

1. Yes. It's civil war time in Iraq.

[Aidoneus]

3. this incessant wail..

veils the likely real nature of what is occuring here.

[maxsolomon]

2. theocracy now

its inevitable - we've managed to throw the women of iraq FURTHER back into the dark ages. amazing. hopefully we can carve off the kurds & create one secular country. what's that? the turks say no? oh, then forget that.

the war on terror: the exact wrong move, every time.

[AlCzervik]

4. I had no idea this happened

no coverage of it. Looks like civil war already is going on.