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Najaf Bombed 60 Percent Of Voters

Juan Cole 08/10/2006

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Najaf Bombed
60 Percent of Voters Oppose War.

Dozens of police were wounded and some may have been killed by a suicide bombing in the holy city of Najaf. Najaf has the shrine of Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, and if anything ever happened to it, all hell would break loose.

3 US soldiers were killed in the turbulent al-Anbar province.

60 percent of Americans are against the Iraq War, and 48 percent believe that the US cannot win.

One man was killed and others injured at a northern demonstration against fuel shortages and generally being neglected by the Iraqi government with regard to services.

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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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