"If Harith al-Dari is arrested we will bring down the government and burn Baghdad"

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17220065.htm

Arrest warrant for Iraqi cleric enrages Sunnis

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At Friday prayers, Sunni preachers condemned the warrant of arrest for Sheikh Harith al-Dari, which Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, a Shi'ite, dramatically announced on Thursday night.

Bolani said Dari, who has backed insurgent attacks on U.S. troops as "legitimate resistance", was wanted on suspicion of terrorism and stirring up sectarian division.

"If Harith al-Dari is arrested we will bring down the government and burn Baghdad," said Khalid Abdullah, a Sunni cleric in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Falluja.

He and fellow Sunni preachers accused the government of pursuing a sectarian agenda by seeking to arrest Dari while failing to curb death squads loyal to Shi'ite parties.

The government hastily sought to distance itself from the warrant for Dari, secretary general of the influential Muslim Clerics' Association, which immediately called on Sunni parties to pull out of the government in protest.

[independentpiney]

1. There's no question about that

Take what happened when they tried that with al-Sadr and multiply by 10.