Iraqi Sunni Claims 'Genocide Campaign'

Guardian Unlimited : BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's most senior Sunni politician issued a desperate appeal Sunday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an ``unprecedented genocide campaign'' by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. The U.S. military reported five American soldiers were killed, apparently lured into an al-Qaida trap.

Adnan al-Dulaimi said ``Persians'' and ``Safawis,'' Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni Arab regimes which predominate in the Mideast.

``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 e-mail to The Associated Press.