civil war
Sunni group says it killed Shi'ite aide
Gunmen seize 15 Iraqi troops in bus ambush
By Anthony Shadid, Washington Post | January 15, 2005
BAGHDAD -- A Sunni Muslim insurgent group that has vowed to disrupt Iraq's Jan. 30 elections claimed responsibility yesterday for the assassination of an aide of the country's most prominent Shi'ite Muslim religious leader, and suspected insurgents abducted 15 Iraqi soldiers and torched their bus in restive western Iraq.