Sunni Religious leaders denounce Buratha Mosque bombing, link it with US plans to stir up sectarian violence and partition Iraq.
In response to Friday’s murderous bombing of the Shi‘i Buratha Mosque in Baghdad and Thursday’s deadly attack on the Shi‘i Shrine of ‘Ali in an-Najaf, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, the highest Sunni religious authority in occupied Iraq, issued a statement condemning those attacks and blaming plotters who seek to partition Iraq for the assaults.
Without specifically naming the United States, the Association of Muslim Scholars in their statement linked the bombings to plans for a “three-state solution” that would partition Iraq into a Kurdish, Sunni Arab, and Shi‘i Arab state as laid out by Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the US Council on Foreign Relations, in his often-quoted New York Times article of 26 November 2003.
In its Friday statement, the Association of Muslim Scholars declared:
“Plotters against this country and those who sell out the blood of its people have continued to knock on every door they think is able to open the way to secondary wars in order that they might attain their goal of splitting Iraq and planting sectarian confessionalism deep in its society so that the occupiers might control the throne of Iraq, securing a position for themselves from which they can reward their tributaries and collaborators.”
The Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars went on to say that as it “proclaims its pain, grief, and denunciation of what took place yesterday and what has happened today, it appeals to the genuine people of Iraq to take a historic stand to save their country from the plans being laid for it by the occupiers and their beneficiaries.”
? Badly tortured bodies of 20 Sunnis murdered by pro-American Shi‘i sectarians found in various locations throughout Baghdad Friday morning.
In a dispatch posted at 10:40am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet police had found a total of 20 bodies of Sunnis in various parts of Baghdad on Friday morning. All had been tortured and murdered.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Captain Jawad ‘Abdallah as-Sa‘idi of the ar-Rusafah puppet police as saying in an exclusive interview that the puppet police and forces of the puppet Rescue Patrols had found 20 bodies of Iraqi Sunnis who had been killed by what he called “death squads.”
As-Sa‘idi said that six corpses had been found in the Baghdad district of ash-Shu‘lah and four in the at-Tubji area. Nine were found in Madinat ath-Thawrah. All the bodies showed signs of torture, electric shock, the pulling out of finger and toenails, and the piercing of their tongues before they were shot to death with a bullet to the brain. As-Sa‘idi said that 11 of the bodies had been identified. All were Sunnis, two of them brothers.
The US and Britain are widely suspected of trying to stoke sectarian fighting in Iraq in an attempt to rescue their crumbling occupation regime in the country.
? Muqtada as-Sadr blames Thursday’s bombing in an-Najaf on occupation forces and their stooges.
In his Friday sermon, delivered prior to the Buratha Mosque attack, Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr denounced US forces as being behind the mysterious bomb attack in an-Najaf that killed 13 civilians on Thursday.
“This is not the first time that the occupation forces and their death squads have resorted to killings,” Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted the Iraqi Religious leader as saying, in reference to Thursday’s attack.
Muqtada as-Sadr also blamed the Anglo-American occupation forces for the recent wave of communal violence in occupied Iraq, charging that the United States was “killing Shi‘i religious leaders in order to start a sectarian strife.”
See: “Mysterious bomb kills 13 civilians near tomb of Imam ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib in an-Najaf.” in Iraqi Resistance Report for Thursday, 6 April 2006.
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