Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Top Sunni religious leader dies
(AP) - Officials say Iraq's top Sunni religious leader died today after suffering a heart attack in his hometown of Tikrit. Shaykh Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban was the mufti, or religious authority, for Iraq's Sunni Arab minority. Al-Dabban, who had been Iraq's Sunni mufti since July 2004, was seen as a moderate who did not play a significant role in the insurgency that followed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Labels: mufti, Shaykh Jamal al-Din Abdul Karim al-Dabban
