A top Iraqi Sunni Muslim scholar has accused the militia of the country's main Shia political party of assassinating Sunni preachers.
US forces have surrounded al-Haj Sulayman al-Dhari village where Shaikh Harith al-Dhari, secretary-general of Iraq's Association of Muslim Scholars, lives.
Muthana Harith al-Dhari, media officer of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars in Last Modified: 05 Aug 2004 11:50 GMT Archive
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Dr Harith al-Dhari, a senior Muslim Sunni authority and secretary-general of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has pardoned the killers of his brother Shaikh Dhamir al-Dhari.
Iraq's most influential Arab Sunni scholar Dr Harith al-Dhari has said he is concerned over "shady rooms" in which the issues of