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Mosul Car Bomb Ams Pledges Civil

Juan Cole 11/03/2004

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Mosul Car Bomb
AMS PLedges Civil Disobedience Campaign

Wire services report that guerrillas tried to use a car bomb to assassinate an Iraqi general in Mosul. The explosion killed seven soldiers and 4 civilians, but missed the general.

In Basra, an assassination attempt on the chief of police, Muhammad Kadhim, failed, but left three of his companions wounded. (-ash-Sharq al-Awsat).

A Reuters cameraman was killed in Ramadi while trying to take photographs, by a sniper. It was unclear whether the sniper was a guerrilla or a Marine.

Muhammad Bashar al-Faidi, a spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, warned on Tuesday that if the caretaker government of Iyad Allawi and his American backers mount an assault on Fallujah,


his clerical group would use “mosques, the media and professional associations” to proclaim a civil disobedience campaign and a boycott of the January elections in case of an attack on Fallujah.”

Guerrillas blew up four pipelines in the north of the country and stopped exports through Turkey.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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