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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, DEC. 27. A top Iraqi Shia leader who is expected to play a leading role after next month's national elections escaped assassination today amid fresh indications that most of the Sunni groups will boycott the polls. At least 13 persons were killed and 39 were wounded in an attack outside the offices of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) in Baghdad. The SCIRI leader, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, apparently the target of the strike, was not injured. He has urged his supporters not to take revenge. Violence targeting Shias has been on the rise recently. Unlike most Sunni groups, the Shias are making extensive preparations for the polls on January 30.
Withdraws from contest
The U.S. efforts to draw Sunni groups in elections suffered a blow when the Iraqi Islamic party, the main Sunni organisation, announced that it was withdrawing from the contest. The party leader, Mohsen Abdul Hamid, said the decision was taken because the authorities refused to postpone the polls. The announcement came amid claims by The Association of Muslim Scholars, a highly influential Sunni relgious group, that the U.S. troops had intruded into the home and killed with "utmost barbarity," Shaikh Muwaffaq Muzaffar Al-Duri, the Friday prayers leader at Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque.
Videotape released
The Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has released a videotape that apparently shows the bombing of a U.S. army camp by a suicide bomber, Abu Omar al-Museli. The videotape posted on the group's Web site showed what appeared to be the explosion at the dining hall of the Marez camp in Mosul, in which, 22 persons, including 18 Americans were killed. A later shot, apparently taken from a car driving along the base's perimeter, showed the ripped tent covering the hall. The video showed the planning of Tuesday's attack on a map of the base with the dining hall clearly marked, as a militant pointed to various areas with an army knife. A masked gunman was shown embracing other group members before leaving on his mission, as a speaker urged God to accept the bomber as an Islamic martyr.
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