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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 10:31 AM
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Kidnapped brother of Iraqi Sunni leader killed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041700396.html

Kidnapped brother of Iraqi Sunni leader killed


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed the brother of a top Iraqi Sunni politician, officials said on Monday, the second killing in less than a week of a relative of a Sunni leader as deadlock over a unity government showed no sign of ending.

One day after Monday's parliamentary session was delayed to give bickering politicians more time to form a government aimed at averting civil war, the body of Saleh al-Mutlak's brother was identified in a Baghdad morgue.

Saleh al-Mutlak, a wealthy businessman with links to former Baathists close to the insurgency, heads an Arab nationalist list which has 11 seats in parliament.

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The discovery, days after gunmen shot dead the brother of leading Sunni politician Tareq al-Hashemi on Thursday, threatens to raise sectarian tensions between Iraq's majority Shi'ite community and minority Sunni Arabs.


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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 10:34 AM
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1. Nope! No Civil War at all!
Still just bubbling...like gravy just before it burns.
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