IRAQ - Sunni Imams Harbour
Neo-Salafis.
US forces on July 21 stormed the Association of Muslim Scholars
(AMS) HQ in Baghdad and arrested 18 armed Neo-Salafi militants of
al-Qaeda. The AMS is the main Sunni religious group which claims control
over 3,000 Sunni mosques throughout Iraq. The AMS, formed after the 2003
US invasion of Iraq, is made up of Sunni Arab imams who used to work as
secret agents of Saddam's dictatorship.
American officials later said the July 21 raid proved that
"the AMS was harbouring [Neo-Salafi] terrorists" despite
frequent denials since 2004 by the association.
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