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Association of Muslim Scholars has one less fewer "scholar"
Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq. Sheik Faidh Mohamed Amin al-Faidhi, a member of the Learned Elders of Islam (TM) Association of Muslim Scholars, was shot by gunmen at his home in northern Mosul [end reporting, commence handwringing] a sign of the continuing violence that wracks the country. The slaying could further alienate Iraq's Sunni Arab minority ahead of the Jan. 30 election. The association is already calling for a boycott of the vote, and if many Sunni heed its call, the legitimacy of the election could be deeply undermined.
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-11-22 |
