Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in the southern city of Basra.
Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down Friday in the Hayania district, which had US Army suicides highest in 2007 ...
Iraqi cleric threatens 'open war' ...
U.N. Human rights body criticises Czechs over Romanies, cage beds ... been a stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a security crackdown last spring. Al-Dirraji was a local official of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the leading rival of al-Sadr's party within the Shiite community.
(Deutsche Welle)
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