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=== News Update ===
Shi�i, Sunni religious spokesmen deny wire service story about �expulsions of Shi�ah� from al-Mada�in, south of Baghdad.
A spokesman for the Martyr as-Sadr Office in Baghdad, �Abd al-Hadi ad-Darraji, denied claims carried in some news reports that there had been an expulsion of Shi�ah from the city of al-Mada�in, south of Baghdad.
In a telephone interview with al-Jazeera satellite TV ad-Darraji said, �from conversations with our brothers there in al-Mada�in we completely deny those reports carried by the news media, in particular that carried by Reuters.�
Ad-Darraji said, �these news reports aim at sowing sectarian conflict in Iraq and threaten the unity of the ranks of the nation, which all Iraqi parties are trying to preserve.� Ad-Darraji noted that the occupation authorities had tried but failed to spark internecine sectarian conflict in the country.
Ad-Darraji added, �I think this sort of thing is fishing in troubled waters and it aims at messing up the lives of the people in the al-Mada�in area.�
Al-Jazeera also reported that the Board of Muslim �Ulama� [Scholars], the highest Sunni religious authority in Iraq, had also denied those reports supposedly coming from al-Mada�in.
Agence France Presse (AFP) had reported an officer in the Iraqi puppet army and residents of the al-Mada�in area had claimed that after armed men captured 80 persons, including women and children, they threatened to kill them if the Shi�ah living in the city did not leave. The report, denied now by both Sunni and Shi�i sources, claimed that dozens of families had fled al-Mada�in, and arrived in al-Kut.
Board of Muslim �Ulama� denounces raids by aggressor forces on mosques and religious leaders� homes in ar-Rusafah district of Baghdad.
The Board of Muslim �Ulama� [Scholars] issued a statement denouncing a wave of US raids on mosques and homes of religious leaders in the Baghdad area of ar-Rusafah.
The statement said that at 9am Saturday, 16 April 2005, an apartment in the al-Isra� wa-al-Mi�raj Mosque in the Second al-Amin area of southern ar-Rusafah was raided and the imam and preacher in the mosque, Shaykh Diya� ad-Din �Abdallah al-Jawari was arrested. Shaykh al-Jawari is the chairman of the Board of Muslim �Ulama� branch in ar-Rusafah. The aggressor forces also ransacked his apartment, smashing furniture and arresting four other mosque officials.
The statement said that on Friday morning, 15 April 2005 the home of Shaykh Yasin Jasim Maghas, the imam and preacher of the al-Hasan ibn �Ali Mosque on Palestine Street and a member of the Board of Muslim �Ulama� in ar-Rusafah was raided. He was attacked and beaten in front of his family, despite his advanced age and ill-health. His daughter was also attacked and beaten. Two of his sons were arrested and the house was ransacked. The door to the home of one of the worshippers at the mosque was blasted open with explosives and two mosque officials were arrested.
These raids, the statement said, were creating a tense situation in the country and do not serve the interests of Iraq. The statement, dated 7 Rabi� al-Awwal 1426 � 16 April 2005, said that these raids only serve the plans of those who seek to continue Iraqi bloodletting.
Later in the day on Saturday US occupation media elaborated further on their bogus story, claiming that a major operation by US and puppet forces was under way to �locate and free� the non-existent hostages.
http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0405/iraqiresistancereport_160405.htm
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