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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Badr Brigade accused of attack |
| 2005-06-10 |
| A militant Shiite Muslim group with close ties to Iran has gained enormous power since Iraq's January elections and now is accused of conducting a terror campaign against Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority that includes kidnappings and murders. But in spite of concern among Sunni Arabs that the Badr Brigade is behind a series of attacks against Sunni clerics, including cases where victims appear to have been tortured with electric drills, the group has received praise from top Iraqi government officials. "Today, there is a sacred mission of sweeping away the remnants of the dictatorship and defeating the terrorism, and your role with your brothers in the [Kurdish militia] is required and necessary to fulfill this sacred mission," Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd, told a meeting of Badr members Wednesday. At the same gathering, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari praised Badr for its restraint, saying "force without integrity is evil and integrity without force is weakness." |
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| Posted by: DJ 2005-06-10 15:46 |