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  1. Even if Saddam goes, the structures of the ruling Ba'ath party would be hard to dismantle and its officials would be still wedded to the concept of a single Iraq governed by the Sunni minority in the geographical centre of the country.  ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )

  2. Most war refugees living in Iran belong to Afghanistan's minority Shiite sect of Islam, which is practiced by most Iranians. Those in Pakistan are Sunni Moslems.  ( Quelle: AP )

  3. Acting Prime Minister Salim Hoss, a Sunni Moslem, endorsed the demand.  ( Quelle: AP 1988 )

  4. An unwritten national covenant calls for Lebanon's president to be a Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Moslem and the speaker of Parliament a Shiite Moslem.  ( Quelle: AP 1988 )

  5. Moslems and Syria rejected the appointment because it violated an unwritten national covenant that gave the premiership to the Sunni Moslems, the presidency to the Maronites and the house speakership to the Shiite Moslems.  ( Quelle: AP 1989 )

  6. Iraq, too, was patched together, out of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds.  ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )

  7. "We're not scared of the militias any more," said Bassam Itani, the Sunni Moslem owner of a toy shop in west Beirut's Zarif district.  ( Quelle: AP )

  8. When reporters told the cardinal Hoss was a Sunni Moslem, O'Connor said, "I did not know that." O'Connor was guest of Maronite Catholic Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir in Lebanon.  ( Quelle: AP 1989 )

  9. That, in turn, might lay the groundwork for a bigger and more long-lasting U.N. presence in northern Iraq to aid the Kurds, who are demanding autonomy from the Sunni Muslim government of Saddam Hussein.  ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )

  10. Acting Prime Minister Salim Hoss, a Sunni Moslem who heads a Syrian-backed Cabinet vying for legitimacy with Aoun's Christian government, and Parliament speaker Hussein Husseini, a Shiite Moslem, have accepted the plan.  ( Quelle: AP 1989 )