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To: geode00 who wrote (46922)5/17/2005 12:09:12 PM
From: tonto  Respond to of 173976
 
Nah, your silly assumptions once again prove you wrong.



To: geode00 who wrote (46922)5/17/2005 12:32:05 PM
From: geode00  Respond to of 173976
 
IRAQ WRAPUP 1-Iraq clerics killed in sectarian strife
17 May 2005 15:03:54 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Michael Georgy

BAGHDAD, May 17 (Reuters) - Insurgents have assassinated three clerics in Baghdad in an escalating wave of violence that authorities fear is aimed at sparking civil war.

Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq also warned the country's Sunni Arabs to take no part in drafting a new constitution, in another sign militants are trying to fuel sectarian tensions.

Guerrillas shot two Shi'ite clerics in Baghdad on Tuesday. Mani Hassan, a member of a leading Shi'ite Islamist party, was killed outside his house, and Muwaffaq Mansour was ambushed in his car.

The body of Hassan Nuaimi, a member of the Sunni Muslim Clerics Association, was also found in Baghdad on Tuesday, a day after the group accused the Shi'ite-dominated government of state terrorism and ignoring the killings of Sunnis.

The violence raged as Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi was set to meet Iraqi leaders during a trip to Baghdad.

Kharrazi is the most senior Iranian official to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein two years ago.

Some Sunni Arabs, suspicious of Iran after the Iran-Iraq war, are worried that the Shi'ite Islamists' victory in Jan. 30 elections will give Tehran a chance to influence Iraqi affairs....

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Tonto: 99% lizard. 1%: on vacation.