Word: ites
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...have had many conversations with Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims about the cartoons. The issue of freedom of speech is not well understood by them. But the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...Sunnis overwhelmingly view the Shi?ite-dominated security forces-especially the Ministry of Interior?s special police commandos-as militias in government clothing, and accuse units such as the infamous ?Wolf Brigade? of conducting a planned campaign of terror, intimidation and assassination against the Sunnis. They are taking their revenge for the terror of Saddam, they...
...Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party in the Shi'ite alliance...
...December: The Shi'ite alliance wins the most seats in national elections but not enough to govern without Sunni participation
...February 22, 2006: The bombing of a sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra sparks sectarian violence that leaves more than 200 dead, including a group of foreign Arab prisoners in Basra