Iraqi Sunni leader dies of heart attack

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Last updated June 17, 2007 5:56 p.m. PT

Iraqi Sunni leader dies of heart attack

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sheik Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban,
Iraq's top Sunni Arab religious leader, died Sunday, an
official said. He was 68.

Al-Dabban suffered a heart attack in his hometown of Tikrit,
said Ahmed Khalifa, the spokesman for the governor of the
northern city of Tikrit.

Al-Dabban, who had been Iraq's Sunni religious leader since
July 2004, was seen as a moderate who did not play a
significant role in the insurgency that followed the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003.

He was arrested by American forces in 2006, in what the
U.S. military later said was a case of mistaken identity.
Huge protests erupted in the streets of Tikrit after the
cleric and his two sons were detained. They were released
about seven hours later.

Tikrit, which lies 80 miles north of Baghdad, is also Saddam
Hussein's hometown.


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[AnnieBW]

1. Awfully conveeeeenient heart attack

dontchathink? :tinfoilhat:

[Drunken Irishman]

3. People do die, dontchathink?

68 isn't old, but it isn't young, either.

[aquart]

5. I think he's been under stress, don't you?

[davepc]

6. No one dies unless the United States goverment kills them.

[Turbineguy]

2. Heart Attack

and here I thought nobody in Iraq died that way anymore.

[uppityperson]

4. My condolences to his family, friends, associates.

[formercia]

7. Don't want any moderates

messing up the plans for total chaos in the Middle East. Cheney and company are having a hard enough time starting World War Four.