Bill Ickes – The Mail & Guardian

/ 28 January 2007

Violence flares in Iraq ahead of Ashura rite

At least 24 Iraqis were killed in ambushes, car bombs and fire fights on Sunday as Shi’ite Muslims headed to the shrine city of Karbala for Ashura, one of their most sacred ceremonies. A car bomb ripped through Baghdad’s Sadr City, the impoverished Shi’ite bastion of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing eight people and wounding 18, a security source said.

By Bill Ickes

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/ 27 January 2006

Leaders plead for better understanding of Islam

With Muslim extremists blamed for fomenting global unrest, leaders from Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to mull the Islamic world’s fractious relations with the West. The discussion ranged from terrorism and modernisation to the nuclear balance in the Middle East.

By Bill Ickes