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World News Mystery grows around massive south Iraq battle

There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and Iraqi security forces supported by the US, which reportedly left 263 people dead and 210 wounded, is a fabrication. The heavy casualties may be evidence of an unpremeditated slaughter. A sketch is beginning to emerge of a clash between a Shia tribe on pilgrimage and an Iraqi army checkpoint that led the US to intervene with devastating effect. The involvement of cult leader Ahmed Al-Hassani may have been incidental.
Main Source: The Independent

Remarks: I’m not sure which story is stranger – any of the official accounts or this roller-coaster ride. The article is fuzzy, at best, without aptly describing the various parties involved. Reporter Patrick Cockburn starts off this Independent article declaring this story is emerging on websites (plural) and in Arabic newspapers (plural), but in the second-to-last paragraph, he indicates his tale is drawn from just one site and one paper. –BD


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