Crowd hacks Iraqi clerics to death in shrine
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A crowd has hacked to death two leading Islamic clerics in a shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf where rival Shiite factions had gathered for talks.
One of the dead, the son of a former Grand Ayatollah, had only recently returned from exile in London."People attacked and killed both of them inside the mosque," said Ali Assayid Haider, a mullah who travelled from Basra for the meeting of Islamic leaders.
The killings took place at the gold-domed Mosque of Ali, one of the holiest Shiite shrines. Najaf is the seat of the Shiite's ayatollahs, or spiritual leaders.
The mosque has been under the supervision of Haider al Kadar, widely disliked because of his role as a member of President Saddam Hussein's Ministry of Religion.In a gesture of reconciliation, al Kadar was accompanied to the shrine by Abdul Majid al Khoei, a high-ranking Shiite cleric and son of one of the religion's most prominent ayatollahs.
After an argument Al Khoei pulled a gun and fired one or two shots. Conflicting eyewitness accounts had him firing bullets into the air and into the crowd. Both men were then rushed by the crowd and hacked to death with swords and knives, witnesses said.
Al Khoei is among the most prominent of Iraq's returned exiles.
and the lawlessness continues
One of the dead, the son of a former Grand Ayatollah, had only recently returned from exile in London."People attacked and killed both of them inside the mosque," said Ali Assayid Haider, a mullah who travelled from Basra for the meeting of Islamic leaders.
The killings took place at the gold-domed Mosque of Ali, one of the holiest Shiite shrines. Najaf is the seat of the Shiite's ayatollahs, or spiritual leaders.
The mosque has been under the supervision of Haider al Kadar, widely disliked because of his role as a member of President Saddam Hussein's Ministry of Religion.In a gesture of reconciliation, al Kadar was accompanied to the shrine by Abdul Majid al Khoei, a high-ranking Shiite cleric and son of one of the religion's most prominent ayatollahs.
After an argument Al Khoei pulled a gun and fired one or two shots. Conflicting eyewitness accounts had him firing bullets into the air and into the crowd. Both men were then rushed by the crowd and hacked to death with swords and knives, witnesses said.
Al Khoei is among the most prominent of Iraq's returned exiles.
and the lawlessness continues
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