Leading Iraqi Shiite Cleric Assasinated in Mosque

[Red Dawn]

This is going to piss of a lot of Iraqi Shiites

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Well sh!t. This is going to suck.

 

[Red Dawn]

At least we weren't responsible

 

[conjur]

Yeah...all Arabs really respect the sanctity of their mosques

Sad.

 

[mastertech01]

He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. The Shiite Cleric meeting was with another cleric well known for his connections with the Saddam regime.. not very good company when considering what has been happening in that country.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: mastertech01
He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. The Shiite Cleric meeting was with another cleric well known for his connections with the Saddam regime.. not very good company when considering what has been happening in that country.

Yeah I read that he was comming to the aid of the other Cleric and was killed in the melee. Because he was in the Mosque he didn't have his American Soldier Body Guards whodid not enter the Mosque as part of their attempt to placate the Shiites.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: mastertech01
He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. The Shiite Cleric meeting was with another cleric well known for his connections with the Saddam regime.. not very good company when considering what has been happening in that country.

Yeah I read that he was comming to the aid of the other Cleric and was killed in the melee. Because he was in the Mosque he didn't have his American Soldier Body Guards whodid not enter the Mosque as part of their attempt to placate the Shiites.

"Islamic cleric Sayed Abdul Majid al-Khoei was the son of the Grand Ayatollah Abu al Qasim al-Khoei, a popular Shiite leader executed under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's rule, said Saad Sayeh Faydh, a family friend."

you know, Saddam is so like, last year, you know, I hear it's chic to be anti-saddam right now anyway, you know, so i don't know, you know, like, that saddam guy guys killed his dad, and like, he's like, trying to help them? Like, whats up with that, you know?

 

[Alistar7]

ok flashback, the whole room just looks different...

did they just change the format or did I fvck something up???????

 

[Stark]

Al-Khoei was trying to re-establish himself in the Shiite community after living in Britain for several years, Time magazine reporter Jim Lacey told CNN. He was expected to urge Iraq's Shiite population to cooperate with the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, Lacey said.

Lacey said al-Khoei had his own security force and was not under the protection of the U.S. Army.

Looks like he didn't have a very good security force. I don't think this will be too big a deal... he didn't even live in the country last week.

 

[SuperTool]

That's Shiity

 

[junkyardDawg]

another link

Apparently feeling threatened ? and to defend al-Kadar ? al-Khoei pulled a gun and fired one or two shots. There were conflicting accounts over whether he fired the bullets into the air, or in the crowd.
Both men were then rushed by the crowd and hacked to death with swords and knives, the witnesses said.

not a smart move

 

[AmerDoux]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: mastertech01
He was hanging out with the wrong crowd. The Shiite Cleric meeting was with another cleric well known for his connections with the Saddam regime.. not very good company when considering what has been happening in that country.

Yeah I read that he was comming to the aid of the other Cleric and was killed in the melee. Because he was in the Mosque he didn't have his American Soldier Body Guards whodid not enter the Mosque as part of their attempt to placate the Shiites.

"Islamic cleric Sayed Abdul Majid al-Khoei was the son of the Grand Ayatollah Abu al Qasim al-Khoei, a popular Shiite leader executed under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's rule, said Saad Sayeh Faydh, a family friend."

you know, Saddam is so like, last year, you know, I hear it's chic to be anti-saddam right now anyway, you know, so i don't know, you know, like, that saddam guy guys killed his dad, and like, he's like, trying to help them? Like, whats up with that, you know?

His visit was an attempt to show that the fractioned Iraqi tribes would be able to set aside past personal greivances against each other, come together and work as a unified nation.

 

[Nitemare]

Was this the cleric that declared a holy jihad aainst all infidels and declared it every devout Muslims duty to kill as many Americans as they can, be they military or civilian, or was that some other cleric?

 

[apoppin]

Here Al Jeezera Comes in "Handy"

Senior Iraqi Shia leader Abdul Majid al-Khoei and a mosque caretaker were killed by a mob in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Thursday, the Khoei family foundation said.


Majid was the son of the late Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei, spiritual leader of Iraq's Shia at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. Agencies quoting Al-Khoei's nephew, Jawad al-Khoei, said Abdul Majid was stabbed to death at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, one of the holiest shrines for Shia Muslims.



The murders are expected to increase tensions among Iraq's majority Shia population.



Both grand Ayatullahs Seestani and Sa'eed Al-Hakeem refused to meet Majeed Al-Khoei when he returned to Najaf on 3 April - a snub that may have been intended to underline their disapproval of his close association with the pro US-led forces.



Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, is one of Iraq's most important religious centres. The main mosque contains the tomb of Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first imam of the Shia.



According to eyewitness accounts, Khoei was at a meeting of leading clerics held at 10am (local time) in Najaf on modalities to control the shrine, which 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 what was seen as a gesture of reconciliation, al Kadar was accompanied to the shrine by Abdul Majid Al Khoei .



When the two men appeared at the shrine, members of another faction loyal to a different cleric, Mohammed Braga al Saddar, verbally assailed them. Apparently feeling threatened, al Khoei is reported to have pulled a gun and fired one or two shots. There are conflicting accounts as to whether he fired the bullets into the air or into the crowd.



Both men were then accosted by the crowd and hacked to death with swords and knives. An unknown number of people were injured. ?Al Kadar was an animal,'' said Adil Adnan al-Moussawi, 25, who witnessed the confrontation. ``The people were shouting they hate him, he should not be here.''



Al-Khoei is among the prominent US-backed exiles who returned to Iraq as the US-led forces extended their hold over the country. He had said then that local clerics were attempting to negotiate a deal whereby Saddam Hussein loyalists would leave the mosque in return for safe passage out of the city.



Al-Khoei heads a London-based philanthropic group. His father, Ayatollah Abul-Qassim al-Khoei, was the Shia spiritual leader at the time of the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam and died while under house arrest.



Abdel Majid Al-Khoei had recently urged his followers in the Shia cities to stay at home and let the American troops do their job. He said Saddam's tactics of urban warfare and the use of paramilitary militias made it highly risky for the population to revolt.



Strongly pro-US, Sayed Abdul Majid Al-Khoei was a bitter critic of Saddam Hussein. He temporarily lived in London waiting for an opportunity to return to Iraq.

The news was reporting - No I DON'T have a link yet - that some of the people arrested in this killing were non-Iraqis . . . :Q