> Fartass Jewad wrote:

>> BAGHDAD: The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a
>> shallow grave in northern Iraq on Thursday, two weeks after he was
>> kidnapped by gunmen in one of the most dramatic attacks against the
>> country's small Christian community.
>>
>> The sad discovery of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho's body came on a
>> day that saw more violence elsewhere in Iraq. A parked car bomb
>> exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad, killing 18
>> people and wounding dozens more, police said. Gunmen also killed five
>> members of an anti-al-Qaida group near Tikrit, and a correspondent for
>> a newspaper in Baghdad.
>>
>> Pope Benedict XVI, President Bush and Iraq's prime minister all
>> deplored the archbishop's death, with the pontiff calling it an
>> "inhuman act of violence that offends the dignity of the human being
>> and harms the peaceful coexistence of the dear Iraqi people."
>>
>> Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraqi Christians have been
>> targeted by Islamic extremists who label them "crusaders" loyal to
>> U.S. troops. Militants have attacked churches, priests and businesses
>> owned by Christians. Many Christians have fled the country, a trend
>> mirrored in many dwindling pockets of Christianity across the Islamic
>> world.
>>
>> Rahho, 65, was seized on Feb. 29, just minutes after he delivered a
>> mass in Mosul, a city considered by the U.S. military the last urban
>> stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq. Three of Rahho's companions were killed.
>>
>> After two weeks of searching and praying, officials at the
>> archbishop's church received a phone call Wednesday from the captors.
>> The caller told the officials that Rahho had died and where to find
>> his body, Monsignor Shlemon Warduni, the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad,
>> told The Associated Press.
>> It was not immediately clear if Rahho was killed or if he died of an
>> illness. Shortly after his abduction, church officials had said they
>> were especially worried because the archbishop had health problems,
>> which they did not identify.
>>
>> A Mosul morgue official, speaking on condition of anonymity for
>> security concerns, said Rahho's body had no bullet holes. The official
>> said police found the body in an early stage of decomposition under a
>> thin layer of dirt just north of the city, suggesting that Rahho had
>> been dead for a few days.
>>
>> There have been no claims of responsibility for the archbishop's
>> kidnapping or his death.
>>
>> The Chaldean church is an Eastern-rite denomination that recognizes
>> the authority of the pope and is aligned with the Roman Catholic
>> Church. Chaldean Catholics make up a tiny minority of the current
>> Iraqi population but are the largest group among the less than 1
>> million Christians in Iraq, according to last year's International
>> Religious Freedom Report from the U.S. State Department.
>>
>> In a telegram of condolence sent to the head of the Chaldean Catholic
>> Church in Iraq, Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, Pope Benedict said he
>> hoped that the "tragic event" would at least help build a peaceful
>> future for the country.
>>
>> Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who pledged last fall to protect
>> and support the Christian minority, said in a statement Thursday that
>> "we condemn and denounce this ugly crime and consider it as an
>> aggression that aims to ignite strife among ... the Iraqi people."
>>
>> In Washington, Bush said he sent his condolences to the Chaldean
>> community and the people of Iraq.
>>
>> "I deplore the despicable act of violence committed against the
>> Archbishop of Mosul," the president said in a statement. "The
>> terrorists will continue to lose in Iraq because they are savage and
>> cruel. Their utter disregard for human life, demonstrated by this
>> murder and by recent suicide attacks against innocent Iraqis in
>> Baghdad and innocent pilgrims celebrating a religious holiday, is
>> turning the Iraqi people against them."
>>
>> U.S. and Iraqi forces have been trying to root out extremists from
>> Mosul, a violent city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
>>
>> In an interview in November with AsiaNews, Rahho said the situation in
>> Mosul was not improving and "religious persecution is more noticeable
>> than elsewhere because the city is split along religious lines."
>>
>> Thursday's bombing in Baghdad, meanwhile, killed 18 people near a
>> bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the
>> heavily fortified Green Zone, a police official said.
>>
>> In other violence, five members of an Awakening Council were killed
>> when unidentified gunmen attacked two separate checkpoints near
>> Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad. Nine others were wounded in the
>> attacks.
>>
>> Unknown gunmen also killed a correspondent for a Baghdad newspaper.
>>
>> Qassim Abdul-Hussein al-Iqabi, 36, was shot while walking in Baghdad's
>> largely Shiite Karradah neighborhood, according to a police official.
>> Both police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they
>> were not authorized to release information.
>>
>>

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