Al-Sadr Aides Pool Efforts to Ease Sunni-Shiite Tensions

World | May 22, 2005, Sunday // 00:00
Al-Sadr Aides Pool Efforts to Ease Sunni-Shiite Tensions Senior aides of anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met a key Sunni group in a bid to soothe tensions that have flared amid violence that has killed at least 550 people, including 10 Shiite and Sunni clerics. Photo by WN

Senior aides of anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met a key Sunni group in a bid to soothe tensions that have flared amid violence that has killed at least 550 people, including 10 Shiite and Sunni clerics, since the new Shiite-dominated government was announced on April 28. ``There is a wound that needs to be treated and Muqtada was the first to offer his medicine,'' said Sheik Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, spokesman for the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars after the talks with the al-Sadr delegation.

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