One of Iraq's four Ayatollahs opposed the election

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Sun Jan-30-05 05:20 PM
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One of Iraq's four Ayatollahs opposed the election

I never saw this before, and it obviously didn't make big news. One of Iraq's four Shiite Grand Ayatollahs urged a boycott of the elections. See: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7474298

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A senior Shi'ite cleric urged Iraqis on Saturday to boycott Sunday's landmark elections and take up arms to expel U.S. forces from the country.

"The current elections are a conspiracy to divide and destroy Iraq," Ayatollah Ahmed al-Hassani al-Baghdadi told Reuters on the eve of Iraq's first multi-party poll in 50 years.

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Very important news, ignored by MSM.

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