[lbo-talk] fw: call for Zalmay Khalilzad to go

[Jim Devine]

from Juan Cole:
>Some prominent Shiite clerics used their Friday sermons to call for
the expulsion from Iraq [Ar.] of US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. They
have begun to see Khalilzad, a Sunni Pushtun, as too close to Sunni
Iraqis and as anti-Shiite. I'm told they have started calling him "Abu
Umar," a reference to the second Sunni Caliph, whom Shiites deride as
a usurper of the office that rightfully belonged to Imam Ali, the
Prophet's cousin and son-in-law.<
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