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Volume VII, Number VI Montreat, NG 28757 March 2, 2006
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AAC Tournament Champs
The top seeded Montreat men won the AAC conference tournament with a 78-67 win over Union College.
Junior Jazz Cathcart and Sophomore Kinard Barnett
Junior Tim Lewis
Senior David Robinson
Iraqi Blast Damages Shia Shrine
BBC News Press Release
“I love the LORD, because He has heard my voice and
my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to
me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. ”
- Psalm 116:1-2 NKJV
Dozens of Sunni mosques
are reported to have been tar
geted and six Sunnis killed
after a gang blew up the dome
of the al-Askari shrine in
Samarra. Iraq’s top Shia cleric.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,
has appealed for calm and
called for a week of mourning.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
said the country must work to
avoid a civil war. In a televi
sion broadcast, Mr Talabani,
a Sunni Kurd, accused the
attackers of trying to sabotage
attempts to form a coalition
government. “We must... work
together against... the danger
of civil war,” he said. Saleh
al-Mutlaq, a leading Sunni
politician in Iraq, told the
BBC the emergence of a new
broad-based government was
critical. “If we do not act in a
very positive way to create a
government of national unity,
a government which contains
everybody, a government
which can control the security
in Iraq, if we stay as we are
now, we kill our men... then
we’re very near [to] civil war,”
he said. No-one has claimed
responsibility for the attack on
the shrine, although Iraqi tele
vision said several people had
been arrested in connection
with the bombing. The BBC’s
Jon Brain in Baghdad says the
attack was almost certainly
designed to raise the existing
tensions between the majority
Shia and minority Sunni popu
lations.
Clashes
Following the attack, thou
sands of demonstrators gath
ered near the shrine, waving
Iraqi flags and calling for jus
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