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Sunnis & Shiites Join Forces to Oppose Occupation

HeadlineApr 07, 2004

A nightmare situation for the US is beginning to emerge with Sunni and Shiite Muslims joining together for the first time to oppose the US occupation. One 30-year-old Sunni merchant in Adhamiya told reporters “This is now jihad against the Americans regardless of whether we are Shiites or Sunnis.”

UPI is reporting a leading Sunni sheik has sent the Shiite leader Sadr a letter offering his army to fight the Americans. The sheik Harrath Selman al-Tey wrote, “There is no more Shiite and Sunni, only Muslims and now we will fight each other no more and together fight the same enemy.” The Financial Times is reporting the fighting in Iraq now resembles a Palestinian-style intifada.

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