Sunday, August 19, 2007

Killings In Shi'ite Holy City Expose Growing Splits In Iraq

The RadioFreeEurope website posted this report August 17, 2007. It starts off like this... Four aides to Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in Al-Najaf over the past two months, raising many questions as to the safety of Iraq's supreme Shi'ite leader and the motives of the perpetrators of the attacks... According to media reports, aides to Iraq's three other grand ayatollahs have also been threatened. "The assassination operations are organized and big resources are allocated [to carry them out], which makes it difficult to accuse any local side of being behind" the attacks, the assistant director of the office of Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum, Muwaffaq Ali, told the London-based "Al-Hayat" this week...
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Iraq: Killings In Shi'ite Holy City Expose Growing Splits

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