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Sunni Cleric's Funeral Disrupted by Attack Attempt A Baghdad funeral for a prominent Sunni clergyman nearly turns bloody when two men with hand grenades were discovered in the crowd of mourners. The cleric, Sheik Dhamer al-Dhari, was killed in what is widely viewed as a political assassination. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

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Sunni Cleric's Funeral Disrupted by Attack Attempt

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A Baghdad funeral for a prominent Sunni clergyman nearly turns bloody when two men with hand grenades were discovered in the crowd of mourners. The cleric, Sheik Dhamer al-Dhari, was killed in what is widely viewed as a political assassination. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.