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Germany strongly condemns the Najaf bombing

IRNA

Berlin, Aug 30, IRNA -- The German government strongly condemned the 
car bomb blast which killed Iraqi Shia leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer
Hakim and at least 125 others in the holy Shia city of Najaf, DPA 
reported Saturday. 
"Those responsible (for the attack) have to be identified and 
harshly punished," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Friday
in Berlin. 
The German government was dismayed and horrified after hearing of 
the car bombing "which took the lives of many innocent people, among 
them the leading Shia cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Hakim," 
Fischer added. 
Ayatollah Hakim was martyred in a car bomb explosion as he was 
returning from the Najaf Friday prayers which he himself had led. 
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