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To: Road Walker who wrote (276216)	2/23/2006 11:37:51 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572158

When you think about it, it was inevitable that the Sunni insurgency would eventually bomb one of the sacred Shia mosques. Now that its happened, you have to wonder what took them so long. I wish we could pull out American troops......they are only going to get caught in the crossfire. Dozens found shot amid sectarian violence as Sunnis pull out of talks Alexandra Zavis, Canadian Press Published: Thursday, February 23, 2006 Thursday and left their bodies in a ditch near Baghdad as militia battles and sectarian reprisals followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine. Sunni Arabs suspended their participation in talks on a new government. At least 47 other bodies were found scattered across Iraq, many of them shot execution-style and dumped in Shiite-dominated parts of Baghdad. The hardline Sunni Clerical Association of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques had been attacked, 10 imams killed and 15 abducted since the shrine attack. The Interior Ministry said it could only confirm figures for Baghdad, where 90 mosques were attacked, one cleric was killed and one abducted. Officials said at least 110 people had been killed across the country in violence believed triggered by the mosque attack. Three journalists working for Al-Arabiya television were found dead in Samarra, site of Wednesday's Askariya mosque attack. Al-Arabiya is viewed in Iraq as favouring the United States. The sectarian violence threatens to derail U.S. plans to form a new national unity government representing all factions, including Sunni Arabs, who form the backbone of the insurgency. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, summoned political leaders to a meeting Thursday. But the biggest Sunni faction in the new parliament, the Iraqi Accordance Front, refused to attend, citing attacks on Sunni mosques. "We want a clear condemnation from the government which didn't do enough yesterday to curb those angry mobs," said Dr. Salman al-Jumaili, a member of the Front. "There was even a kind of co-operation with the government security forces in some places in attacking the Sunni mosques." As the country veered ominously toward sectarian war, the government extended a curfew in Baghdad and Salaheddin province for two days. All leaves for Iraqi soldiers and police were cancelled and personnel ordered to report to their units. Sixteen people, eight of them civilians, died in a bombing Thursday in the centre of Baqouba, 56 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. The bombing, which targeted soldiers, was not seen as part of the sectarian fighting. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accused the Iraqi government and U.S. forces of failing to protect the Samarra shrine, also known as the Golden Mosque, and ordered his militia to defend Shiite holy sites across Iraq. "If the government had real sovereignty, then nothing like this would have happened," al-Sadr said a statement. "Brothers in the Mahdi Army must protect all Shiite shrines and mosques, especially in Samara." The destruction of the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine in Samarra sent crowds of angry Shiites into the streets. The crowds included members of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias that the United States wants abolished. 1 2 next page canada.com