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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (97996)	5/12/2003 5:18:45 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<And to put them in charge?!! What the hell!?!> In Najaf, the Shiites are seething at the appointment by U.S. military commanders of a mayor who is Sunni. In addition, Shiite leaders say, the new mayor, Abdul Munem, is a secularist, a former Iraqi army colonel who they say worked with the intelligence services. The mayor maintains his own militia and is hostile to Shiites, dismissive of clerics' authority and dangerous, they say. washingtonpost.com Najaf is, to Shiites, what Jerusalem is to Jews. Perhaps the mayor's Sunni militia will be useful, protecting the Christian missionaries going door to door, spreading the Word that Islam is a terrorist religion. Operation Iraqi Freedom rolls on.

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