US using Saddam death to sow Muslim discord: Lebanese cleric
BEIRUT (AFP) - The United States is using the execution of Saddam Hussein' to sow discord among Muslims, a leading Lebanese Shiite cleric has said.
"Some countries are trying to exploit yesterday's execution of the dictator Saddam Hussein, who is Sunni, in order to provoke discord between Sunnis and Shiites," Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said in a message marking Eid al-Adha or the feast of the sacrifice on Sunday.
"Beware of such discord because it's what the Americans want -- seeking revenge on the Muslim world and the destruction of Islam by launching a cultural, political, economic and security war," said Fadlallah who has followers throughout the Shiite Muslim world.
"Some say that Saddam was Sunni, but in fact he was a dictator who persecuted his own people and his adversaries without regard for their confession," Sunni or Shiite, he said.
Saddam, whose Sunni-dominated regime was replaced by an elected Shiite-led government after he was toppled in 2003, was hanged on Saturday for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys from the village of Dujail after a 1982 attempt on his life there.
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