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Audiotape claiming to be Saddam denies role in cleric's death.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Drew Brown and Hannah Allam
BAGHDAD _ The killing of a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric in a recent car bomb attack increases the potential for civil war among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups and presents a grave new challenge to the U.S.-led occupation of the country, several Iraqi analysts said Monday.
The killing of another prominent cleric, either Sunni or Shiite, could spark widespread violence, one warned.
While the funeral procession was still under way for slain Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al Hakim's burial in Najaf on Tuesday, several Iraqi groups _ some religious and others ad hoc and mysterious _ spoke of revenge for his death. In addition, a new audiotape emerged Monday in which a voice claiming to be deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein _whose followers are widely suspected in the Hakim's murder _ denied any role in the ...
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