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In Basra: Joint Sunni-Shi'ite Friday Prayers

In joint Sunni-Shi'ite Friday prayers in Basra, on March 22, a Sunni preacher called to make this year a year of "security, building, and war on corruption and terrorism," and to thwart "the infidel terrorist conspiracy" by the enemies of Allah to divide the Iraqi populace and to cause its elements to fight one another.

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, March 22, 2008

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