Terrorists
Aiming To Spark A Religious War
The
murder of a leading Iraqi cleric by a
horrific car bomb on Friday was more
than a tragic blow to Iraqis.
It was a
deadly challenge to the whole Iraq
policy of the United States.
There was
a ghoulish strategy apparent behind the
bomb that killed Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr
al-Hakim and dozens of worshipers
outside Shiite Islam's holiest shrine in
Najaf. For that reason, this outrage
generated even more fear than last
week's attack on U.N. headquarters in
Baghdad. >more
