Iraq Sunnis play down Islamic State role in 'popular revolt'

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https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0yVbN4H8.crfBKb7_NU.Sw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-AE_XE/News/AFPMideastEN/7a254e78433dba86275b1df6067b16d27c446730.jpg (https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/iraq-sunnis-play-down-islamic-state-role-popular-195511234.html)Iraqi Sunni leaders in exile said Wednesday that last month's flare-up of violence was the result of a "popular revolt" against the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Several of around 300 Sunni clerics, tribal leaders, insurgent commanders and businessmen who attended a meeting in Amman insisted that the Islamic State (IS), which in June declared a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria, was only a marginal player in their country. "What is happening in Iraq **w is a revolt of the oppressed," said Abdelmalek al-Saadi, a senior Sunni cleric. "We call on Arab countries to support the rebels in Iraq," Ahmad Dabash, a commander of the Islamic Army of Iraq, a group which emerged after the 2003 US-led invasion and remains active, mainly in Salaheddin and Diyala provinces.




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