Sunni in a World of Shiite

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's most senior Sunni politician issued an appeal yesterday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an "unprecedented genocide campaign" by Shiite terrorists armed, trained and controlled by Iran. Adnan al-Dulaimi lambasted Iranian Shiites and warned they would soon threaten Sunni Arab regimes. "It is a war that has started in Baghdad, and they will not stop there but will expand it to all Arab lands," al-Dulaimi wrote in an impassioned broadside. Sunni Arab regimes throughout the Middle East fear the growing influence of Iran's Shiite theocracy with terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as the Syrian regime. "Arabs, your brothers in the land of the two rivers and in Baghdad in particular are exposed to an unprecedented genocide campaign by the militias and death squads that are directed, armed and supported by Iran," al-Dulaimi said. And he castigated fellow Sunnis in the Middle East, saying they "did not make any move and did not even bother to denounce what is taking place against your brothers at the hands of Iranian militias and death squads." Meanwhile, five American soldiers were killed Saturday just south of Baghdad, where terrorists are now under attack by Task Force Marine soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division