Al-Aima Bridge disaster bring Shiite and Sunnis together

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Al Aima Bridge disaster that claimed more than thousand Iraqi Shiites have created a kind of consolation between Sunnis and Shiites , expressed by the blood donation campaigns that was called for by the Sunni clerics from Faluja city that considered one of the insurgents main holds in Iraq . as well as some case where Sunni people were killed trying to rescue others Shiites at the time of the disaster.

Iraq prime minister Ibrahim Al Jafary expressed through the Iraqi media the meaning by saying “ Iraqi Sunni and Shiite are complementing each other” while Shiites are still in mourning after the catastrophe that happened during the scrambling of tens of thousands Shiites heading to visiting the shrine of Imam Musa Al Kadhim north of Baghdad.

Al Jafary in a speech through the Iraqi government TV ( Al Iraqia) said “ Shiites and Sunnis will continue their complimenting with a dual respect ,A Shiite dead and martyred in a Sunni area in one occasion and we see the other sacrifices his life trying to rescue the second”. In a hint to one Sunni who had drown while he was rescuing one of the Shiites pilgrims from Tigris river last Wednesday, Al Jafary clarified “ The martyr Othman Ali Al Ubaidy (a Sunni from Al Adhamia) after saving six Shiites from drowning, this is a message to the whole world that the real problem is not between Sunni and Shiites “and expressed his deep desire in meeting the Martyr’s family who is a sample of our respectable Sunni families.

In this contexts a different political resources mentioned a nonofficial communications between political entities in a try to find an acceptable form for all constitution project that have been rejected by the Sunnis. Khalid Ataya the Shiite member in the constitution drafting committee clered to France express agency that “ no official negotiations but unofficial communications between all parties to reframe some items especially the third paragraph in a way that it will be acceptable by Sunnis.
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