04.03.2004, 01:20
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Zitat:Shias feel the deadly force of Sunni hate
By Patrick Bishop in Karbala
(Filed: 03/03/2004)
The crowds in Karbala wanted to blame everyone except the people most likely to be responsible for yesterday's devastating attacks.
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No one seemed willing to draw the obvious conclusion: that the bombers were in all probability fellow Arabs and fellow Muslims, though not of the Shi'ite tradition whose holy ceremony of Ashura they defiled with innocent blood.
The attacks in Karbala and Baghdad fit perfectly the declared aim of Iraq's most wanted terrorist. In a letter found on a CD-rom seized in a raid in Baghdad in January, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spelled out his mission in the clearest possible terms.
Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who joined up with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and is believed to be closely linked to al-Qa'eda, is open in his hatred of Shias who he describes as "the most evil of mankind". He tells his followers: "They are the enemy. Beware of them. Fight them."
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