Calls for unity in Iraq

Gateway Pundit:

After a brutal week, Iraqis united on Friday:

* Iraq's most influential Shiite political leader called Friday for Sunni-Shiite unity.
* Several joint Sunni-Shiite prayer services were announced for Friday
* Top Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, blamed Saddam Hussein loyalists and followers of al-Qaida in Iraq boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
* U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said this was a "moment of opportunity" for Iraq.

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There is much more in this compilation of stories about Iraqi leaders who are showing emotional maturity in the face of the provacation of having a shrine destroyed. This attack may backfire big time on the people behind it if it draws the people of Iraq together.

This BBC story gives more detail on calls for calm:

Shia and Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq and abroad have used Friday prayers to call for calm amid sectarian strife sparked by an attack on an Iraq shrine.

Clerics issued appeals for restraint and unity, although attendance in Baghdad and three provinces was hit by a curfew allowing travel only on foot.

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