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To: Doug R who wrote (47350)	5/19/2005 6:25:58 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Aide to Prominent Shiite Cleric Found Dead in Baghdad By Jonathan Finer and Saad Sarhan Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, May 19, 2005; 11:03 AM BAGHDAD, May 19 -- An aide to a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric was found shot to death in the Iraqi capital Thursday, his body pulled from a car at the bottom of the Tigris River. Sheik Mohammed Tahir Allaq was the Baghdad representative of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Saeid Hakim, one of the four influential Shiite religious leaders based in the city of Najaf. The attack continued a wave of violence against religious figures from two of Iraq's main Muslim sects. The dead bodies of three Sunni Muslim sheiks were discovered in Baghdad earlier this week. A Shiite cleric and an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, widely considered the most influential Shiite cleric in the country, was also killed.... In recent days, Sunni leaders have accused the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, and a prominent Shiite militia known as Badr, of killing its clerics. The government and the militia have denied the charges.... washingtonpost.com