Ali Samawai
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/ 20 August 2007

Shi’ite rifts deepen as another governor is killed

Bombers killed an Iraqi provincial governor on Monday — the second assassinated in two weeks — amid mounting tension between rival Shi’ite armed factions in Iraq’s southern cities. Both governors were members of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, one of Iraq’s most powerful parties and a bitter rival of another Shi’ite movement.