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Sunni clerics claim US, Shi'ite complicit in attacks
Iraq’s main Sunni Muslim religious organisation, accusing the Shia-led government and US forces of involvement in attacks by Shia militiamen, called on Wednesday on the community to protect its mosques.

“Our brothers in all areas must protect their mosques as the government has failed to do so,” Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, spokesman for the Muslim Clerics Association, told a news conference broadcast live on Al-Jazeera television.

Since a bomb blamed on Al Qaeda demolished the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, sectarian violence has killed more than 400 people by government reckoning, pitching Iraq toward civil war.

Qubaisi angrily listed alleged attacks on Sunnis across Iraq and accused Shia police of attacking the Baghdad home of the group’s head, Harith al-Dari, on Saturday, wounding some of Dari’s nieces.

Qubaisi showed a group of children with bandages on their legs and arms and lying on beds. He said they had been wounded in the attack.

He said Shia police had showed up at Dari’s house to arrest him and that when the guards opposed them a shootout erupted.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-03-02
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