Posted on 09/15/2003 11:18:14 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BAGHDAD — A former Ba'ath Party official has confessed to planning the massive car bombing that killed the senior Shi'ite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and more than 80 others last month, a top Shi'ite security official said.
Ayatollah al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was killed in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on Aug. 29. The incident has threatened to further divide Iraqi Shi'ites oppressed by former President Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, which was primarily Sunni.
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"DeadEnders"
Most appropriate, IMNSHO...
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