Thursday, November 30, 2006
Al-Hakim warns Sunnis will lose a civil war
Politics, Security
Iraq's Sunnis would be the "biggest losers" if the country was engulfed by civil war, a top Iraqi Shiite leader, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, warned Wednesday after talks with Jordan's king, the palace said. "We are proud of our Arab roots but if a civil war were to take place, the biggest losers will be our brothers in the Sunni community," Hakim said during the meeting with King Abdullah II, it said in a statement. Hakim heads the powerful Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a religious party that is a pillar of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition.
