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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (156384)4/24/2003 3:25:26 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 164684
 
From the article:

"Shiite scholars will agree on the right person that runs Iraq's affairs .... The right person does not have any connection with foreign countries," he said.

The clerical push for a theocracy brought a harsh response from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

"If you're suggesting, how would we feel about an Iranian-type government with a few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is: That isn't going to happen," he told AP on Thursday.

Secular-religious tensions are even played out within the same Iraqi Shiite group.



"We want God's word to be implemented," Sheik Karim al-Saadi, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, told al-Jazeera television recently. The Shiite council, which was the biggest group opposing Saddam, is based in Iran.