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...when the members of Iraq's new government were sworn in, Masar Sarhan al-Rubaiyi, 24, a pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Baghdad, decided to throw a party. As a supporter of a Shi'ite political party, al-Rubaiyi was celebrating the ascent of the country's Shi'ite majority after decades of repression under Saddam Hussein. But the revelry turned sour after officials at the college of pharmacy asked al-Rubaiyi and his friends to break up the event, saying it violated a university policy banning sectarian gatherings on campus. The students refused the request, and al-Rubaiyi...
...what happened next that has put the school on edge-and induced worries that al-Rubaiyi's death could spark a wider, bloodier conflagration. In the aftermath of the killing, mobs of Shi'ite students rioted at the college of pharmacy, blaming al-Hiti and his bodyguard-both of them Sunnis-for al-Rubaiyi's murder and vowing revenge. Al-Hiti and his bodyguard deny having anything to do with the murder. As the violence spread to a cluster of adjacent colleges, Sunni faculty members had to be evacuated by security guards, colleagues and students. When the rioters showed...
Last week, Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims traveled to Islamabad's Bari Imam shrine to commemorate the life of Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, a 17th century Sufi saint?and repudiate the deadly sectarianism bedeviling Pakistan. Instead, Friday's gathering became a bloodbath when a terrorist blew himself up in a tent full of Shi'ite celebrants, killing at least 20 people...
SWORN IN. IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI, 58, Shi'ite Muslim and chosen candidate of the United Iraqi Alliance; as Prime Minister of the first-ever democratically elected government of Iraq; in Baghdad. Against a backdrop of violence?more than 250 people have been killed since the new government was announced in late April?al-Jaafari was inaugurated along with 30 other members of his government, although he has yet to permanently fill certain key posts in his Cabinet, including Oil and Defense Ministers. Al-Jaafari faces the tough job of quelling the insurgency and rebuilding the country while a new constitution...
...congratulate Chalabi (and placed a similar call to another Deputy Prime Minister). U.S. officials have taken no action in the probe into Chalabi's dealings with Iran. And they argue that he will play a vital role in Iraq's fledgling democracy after he brought together disparate Shi'ite parties to make the January elections a success. "He is the one who can make this work," says a U.S. official...