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To: AntiGuv; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Shi'ite political sources say the gunmen appeared to be both Sunni Arabs and Shi'ites loyal to a cleric called Ahmed Hassani.

Well, that's a new one. I haven't seen that name before.


Neither have I... And that sure blows that whole "civil war/sectarian/they hate the sight of each other" argument out of the water!
82 posted on 01/28/2007 11:38:04 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: cgk

Cleric/Ansar al Sunnah

This was followed by an announcement by a number of non-Salafist insurgent groups of the formation of a 25-member Political Bureau for Iraqi Resistance, consisting of representatives of the Ba’athists, the Iraqi National Alliance, the Armed Forces General Command, Patriotic Communists Against the Occupation, the Association of Muslim Scholars, Grand Ayatullah Ahmad al-Hassani al-Baghdadi, the Nationalist Nasserite Trend, the Islamic Army, al-Rashidin Army, and the 1920 Revolution Brigades. Members of the Political Bureau include Dr Qays Muhammad Nuri, Dr Khudayyir Wahid al-Murshidi, Awni Qalamji, Ahmad Karim, Yusuf Hamdan, Abd al-Razzaq al-Sa’adi, Abd al-Karim Hani, Arshad Zibari, Buthaynah al-Nassiri and Abd al-Jabbar al-Kubaysi. This has been interpreted as a split between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi Salafist groups on the one side and the non-Salafist pro-Saddam Hussein groups on the other. It has also been interpreted to mean that the non-Salafists have refused to recognise the so-called Islamic Emirate of Iraq on the ground that it would formalise the split of Iraq and the creation of a separate State for the Sunnis.

http://www.saag.org/%5Cpapers21%5Cpaper2082.html

I'm wondering if he's related to Hajem the Iraqi parlimentary speaker who's always mouthing off.

Ansar al Sunnah also likes to behead as shown in previous videos.


105 posted on 01/28/2007 11:49:10 AM PST by AliVeritas (Stop Global Dhimming. Demand testicular fortitude from the hill. Call the crusade.)
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