Iraqi Denies Shiites Killing Sunni Clerics

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The man in charge of
Iraq's police and security services on Thursday dismissed accusations that Sunni Arab clerics are being assassinated by a Shiite militia in which he played a leading role.
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Interior Minister Bayan Jabr told The Associated Press in an interview that more mosques and clerics from the Shiite majority have been attacked than those belonging to the Sunni minority.

Jabr is a top member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the country's largest Shiite Muslim party, and he served as a senior official in the party's militia, the Badr Brigade, before joining Iraq's first postwar Cabinet in 2003.

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