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To: calgal who wrote (423177)	7/5/2003 12:39:49 AM
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More Bad News For Iraq - fights between Shiites and Sunnis. This could easily spread across the Middle East and keep Iraq from ever becoming pacified: QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide attack on a packed Shi'ite mosque in southwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers killed at least 44 people and wounded 65 others, the country's leading private emergency service said. Describing what was the worst such attack in Pakistan in recent years, witnesses at the main Shi'ite mosque in the center of the city of Quetta reported seeing gunmen firing on worshippers before at least one suicide bomber blew himself up. "According to our information, 44 people were killed and 65 wounded," Ali Murad of the Edhi Welfare Foundation told Reuters. Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Mehdi Najafi, who was leading prayers at the time of the attack, gave a toll of 40 dead and 52 injured. Earlier, officials put the toll at 32 dead but said it could rise. "I saw bodies blown to pieces," said worshipper Khan Ali, 60, who was slightly injured in the attack, which sparked angry protests among Shi'ite Muslims in the city. No group claimed responsibility for the raid, but officials said it appeared to be linked to rivalry between minority Shi'ites and majority Sunni Muslims, which has often exploded into violence in the past.