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| Gunmen Slay Two Holy Men in Baghdad |
| 2004-09-20 |
| Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric as he entered a mosque in Baghdad to perform noon prayers Monday, the second slaying of a cleric from the influential Association of Muslim Scholars in as many days, the group said. The cleric, Sheik Mohammed Jadoa al-Janabi, was killed in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite al-Baya neighborhood, the association said. He was unarmed and had no security guards. "It was a cleric coming to a mosque," said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There was no need for a bodyguard." Late Sunday, gunmen attacked the car of another cleric from the association as he was leaving a mosque in another largely Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, Sadr City. The cleric, Sheik Hazem al-Zeidi, was killed and two of his bodyguards were briefly taken hostage, said Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abdul-Jabbar, a senior member of the association. The bodyguards were released Monday. Sadr City has a Shiite Muslim majority, but Sunni Muslims have at least 10 mosques in the neighborhood. "After performing the night prayers at al-Sajjad Mosque in Sadr City (al-Zeidi) left in his car with two bodyguards." Abdul-Jabbar said. "A group of masked gunmen followed him in a private car and opened fire." There have been tit-for-tat killings of Shiite and Sunni clerics in the past year, widely believed to be motivated by sectarian sentiments. However, the embattled police never thoroughly investigate such murders. In Baghdad, where Shiites and Sunnis are roughly equal in number, attacks have taken place against places of worship belonging to both communities. The organization is a conservative group that has worked for the release of foreign hostages. It strongly opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq. The association is a conservative group that has worked for the release of foreign hostages. It strongly opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Why Fred, you're not quite as stupid as I thought. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6571 2004-09-20 9:42:03 PM |
| #3 I'm hoping these are our hunter-killer teams, or their ... ummm... associates. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-09-20 8:02:45 PM |
| #2 I'm laying for a genuine 3 Triple Rock Baptist Squire of Love myself. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-20 5:41:44 PM |
| #1 Tater going into the sectarian violence business? Celrics taking to big of a cut on the ransoms? Inquiring kaffir want to know. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-20 5:14:54 PM |