Five Killed in Shiite-Sunni Clash

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Hundreds of Shiite Muslims and Sunnis clashed in a western Afghan city Thursday during an important Shiite festival, exchanging fire, hurling grenades and burning mosques, officials said.

At least five people were killed and 51 injured, a doctor said. Islamic extremists are suspected to have incited the violence, said Ismatullah Mohammed, a senior police officer.

The fighting followed three days of rioting across Afghanistan over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in a Danish newspaper. Those riots left 11 dead.

Thursday's fighting started after 300 Sunnis threw stones at a Shiite mosque during the sect's most important festival, Ashoura, Mohammed said. Such an attack is rare in Afghanistan, where there has been little tension between the two sects.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0206/301411.html

[Missy M]

1. What a wonderful world Bush has created......

soon everyone will be fighting everyone and then the neocons wll be happy. The article said such an attack is rare in Afghanistan, but I guess not now in Bush's new world.

[gauguin57]

2. This is one of the most important stories of the day, and it's not even

a headline on CNN.com.

"... Clashes between Sunnis and Shiites are common in Iraq and police suspicions that extremists may be behind Thursday's violence in Herat may reinforce fears that al-Qaida militants, some from Iraq, are stoking the fighting here."

These clashes in Afghanistan and Iraq could lead to the all-out civil war those with SENSE have been predicting since Bush got us into this goddamned mess.

When all-out civil war breaks out, our poor troops are gonna be right in the center of the s***-storm! And Bushie and Dickey will be fat and cozy, havin' a brewsky and a stogie on the Truman Balcony.

[Javaman]

3. Naaa, their ain't no civil war. Move along, citizen, nothing her to see.nt

[sabra]

4. one prob, this is Afghanistan

kinda ironic?

[Javaman]

6. Very much so! Afhganiraqistan...n/t

[Igel]

5. "Burning mosques."

Worth pointing out. But nothing more must be said.