India watching events in Iraq, but wants to keep distance

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New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) India is watching with much concern and consternation events unfold in Iraq, the world's newest hot spot of violence where Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militants have overrun large swathes of area, even as it is worried over its flourishing trade ties with that country. On Friday, Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani exhorted all able-bodied Iraqis to take up arms as advancing militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took more towns and were marching towards Baghdad. The US has ruled out sending US troops into combat in Iraq but said it was studying other military options, like military air strikes. According to the UN, hundreds have been killed with militants carrying out summary executions of civilians in Mosul and Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's birthplace and stronghold, which they overran.

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