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Second Sunni cleric gunned down in Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-23 14:28
Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the
second such killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital
officials said.
Sheikh Ghaleb al-Zuheir was a member of the Muslim Clerics Association, which
aims to speak for the once dominant Sunni minority and which has called for a
boycott of January's Iraqi election.
It was not clear whether there was any connection with the drive-by shooting
in the northern city of Mosul Monday of Sheikh Feydhi Mohammed al-Feydhi,
brother of the association's official spokesman.
Miqdadiya lies 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, close to the restive,
mostly Sunni, provincial capital of Baquba.
The Muslim Clerics Association was set up with the blessing of the U.S.
occupation authorities after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated
administration last year. It says its members have been targeted by U.S. and
Iraqi security forces and also by insurgents trying to fuel sectarian unrest.
Many Sunnis, mostly living north and west of Baghdad, fear the election
planned for Jan. 30 will hand domination to the long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim
majority in the south.
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