Loud-mouthed clerics loathing to give up power might be thinking twice about pissing on Iraq's cornflakes:
Masked gunmen on Tuesday assassinated a Sunni cleric north of Baghdad, police said — the second such killing in as many days.
Sheik Ghalib Ali al-Zuhairi was a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential Sunni clerics group that has spoken out against nationwide elections to be held Jan. 30.
Allawi has these old pals of Saddam on his mind:
''The forces of darkness and terrorism will not benefit from this democratic experience and will fight it, but we are determined that this experiment succeeds.''
Gone are the days when the only name on the ballot is Saddam's.
Posted by floridacracker at November 23, 2004 07:37 AM