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...networks are leaking information that there would be a war on Iran if the Shi'ite theocracy there does not reverse its nuclear ambitions, with Tehran suspected of trying to develop atomic weapons (see news10-Iran-NukeIssueMar5-07).
Neo-Salafis mainly attack Shi'ites. A Neo-Salafi suicide bomber with a vest of explosives on Feb. 25 blew himself up at the predominantly Shi'ite campus of Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, killing at least 40 people and strewing fingers, pens, purses and bloody textbooks all over the ground. The blast was one of several bombs and explosions to hit Baghdad on Feb. 25, making it one of the worst days of violence since Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced a new security crackdown.
An hour later a new challenge emerged for Maliki's Baghdad security plan. The renegade Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr condemned the plan in a signed statement saying it had no hope of success as long as US troops were involved. Read aloud to 1,000 shouting supporters in Sadr City, a huge Shi'ite slum near the site of the university blast, the statement called on the Iraqi security forces to stop co-operating with the US military. The statement said: "There is no good that comes from a security plan controlled by our enemies, the occupiers. If you stay away from them, God will protect you from horror and...
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