Iraq Carnage Continues With 11 Deaths, So Far

   A suicide bomber hit a police checkpoint just outside the Shiite city of Najaf on Wednesday killing 11 people. This is right in the heart of factions ran by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

   In Baghdad the political climate is getting shakier after a Sunni woman claimed that she was raped  while in custody of the Shiite controlled police department.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired the head of the influential Sunni Endowment, who had called for an international investigation into the rape allegations

A statement by al-Maliki's office gave no reason for the dismissal of Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour al-Samaraie, who directed the state agency overseeing Sunni mosques and seminaries. But suspicion fell on his harsh criticism of the government's handling of the rape allegations.

The government's quick rejection of the woman's claims have outraged many Sunnis, who accused al-Maliki of a high-level cover-up. The Association of Muslim Scholars, a militant Sunni group known to have links with insurgent groups, called it a "moral genocide" and warned of more fallout ahead.

  It would seem that al-Maliki has learned one thing from Bush and that is to get rid of those who say things that you do not like. Democracy at its finest!

 

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