Sunni leader blames Shi&#39;ites
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MULTAN (Pakistan) - A leader of a radical Sunni group blamed yesterday&#39;s bombings at a religious gathering on radical Shi&#39;ite Muslims.
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Iraq into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Shiite and Sunni Arab leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with President Bush next week.
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A well-respected Sunni leader who was key in helping reduce violence in his northern Baghdad neighborhood was among at least 15 people killed in three separate suicide bombings Monday, officials said.
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Enraged Shiites burned people to death, torched mosques and denounced Sunni leaders and the United States a day after a bloody assault on Sadr City, the Iraq capital's Shiite bastion.
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WASHINGTON -- More than a third of Iraq's national police battalion commanders are now Sunni after a purge of Shi'ites who had a sectarian bias, a US general said yesterday.
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In west Baghdad&#39;s Omar al-Khattab mosque, a Sunni preacher assails his Shia compatriots for failing to come to the aid of the besieged city of Falluja.
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A powerful Shiite leader denounced U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call for an international conference on Iraq to prevent a fast-approaching all-out civil war.
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Sunni residents in a volatile northwest Baghdad neighborhood claimed Friday that revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen had destroyed four Sunni mosques, burned homes and killed many people, while the Shiite-dominated police force stood by and did nothing.
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IRAQ&#39;S interim Prime Minister yesterday delivered another blow to President Bush just a week before the US election when he blamed American-led forces for
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A top Shiite cleric called on Muslims Friday to keep religion out of politics and not use mosques and religious events for the interest of political groups, sects or personalities.
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One of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders said after meeting President Bush on Monday that civil war could only be staved off if U.S. forces struck harder against Sunni-led insurgents.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric urged followers on Monday not to seek revenge against Sunni Arabs on the first anniversary of a Shi'ite shrine bombing that has pitched the country to the brink of civil war.
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The radical Shi'ite cleric's sudden reemergence bodes ill for the Iraqi government and U.S. forces
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The US accuses Iran of using the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah to train Shia militants in Iraq.
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Iraq's most influential Shia cleric denies reports that he is demanding that Islam be the country's sole source of law.
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Iraqi Sunni leader Tariq al-Hashemi holds talks with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shia cleric.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 26  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday that &quot;gross negligence&quot; by some elements of the US-led military in Iraq was partly to blame for the killing of 49 unarmed army recruits and three drivers on Saturday, as he warned of