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| Iraq |
| Hundreds of Iraqis mourn slain Sadr MP |
| 2008-10-11 |
| NAJAF, Iraq - Hundreds of supporters of Iraq's anti-American Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathered on Friday to bury a Sadrist lawmaker, assassinated a day earlier in a bomb attack. In the Baghdad district of Sadr City men cried and shouted slogans as they carried and walked alongside Saleh al-Ugaili's coffin, draped in the Iraqi flag, before it was taken to a cemetery in the holy southern Shia city of Najaf. "God is the greatest, America is the enemy of God," chanted mourners in Najaf after Friday prayers. Ugaili died on Thursday when a blast struck his car in the Habibiya district of eastern Baghdad. It was not clear who was behind the attack, but some mourners blamed the United States. Sadrists are vehemently opposed to the U.S. presence in Iraq. "We condemn this attack and face our accusations towards the occupying forces. We consider it the side that gains from this and the one side that has aims and interests in targeting Sadrists," Sadrist member of parliament Naseer al-Isawi said. Top U.S. officials have condemned Ugaili's killing. |
| Posted by:Steve White |