Top Cleric Attacks Iraq Election Plan

World | January 16, 2004, Friday // 00:00

Top Shia cleric Hojat Al-Islam Ali Abdulhakim Alsafi has sent a letter to US President George Bush to question sincerity over the transfer of power in Iraq to locals. The letter also expressed doubts that the transition plan was rather linked to US interests. The news for the letter came as tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in the city of Basra to protest against US plans for the country's new authorities to be chosen indirectly.

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