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Jawad Al-Khalessi

Cheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi is a Shiite imam of the Al-Kazemiya mosque in Bagdad and the dean of the religious school annexed to it.

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“Abu Musab al-Zarkawi is dead. His name has been used by the occupying forces to stay in Iraq”

by Jawad Al-Khalessi

7 October 2005

I don’t think Abu Musab al-Zarkawi exists. He died in Northern Iraq at the beginning of the war (his family even made a funeral ceremony in Jordan). Since then, his name has been nothing but a toy, an excuse used by Americans to stay in Iraq. To declare “total war against the Shia” is a way of (...)