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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 767977" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bonfire-of-one-mans-vanity-2075472.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bonfire-of-one-mans-vanity-2075472.html</a>&nbsp;Their calls for the event to be cancelled came as reports emerged from Baghdad&nbsp; &nbsp; of an apparent revenge attack on Iraq&#039;s only operating Anglican church, St&nbsp; &nbsp; George&#039;s. According to two eyewitnesses, up to four people were killed after&nbsp; &nbsp; gunmen opened fire on guards outside the church, which lies in a compound&nbsp; &nbsp; just outside the comparative safety of the Green Zone.&nbsp; &nbsp; It has been targeted by extremists before but Canon Andrew White, the&nbsp; &nbsp; British-born vicar of St George&#039;s, said he believed that yesterday&#039;s attack&nbsp; &nbsp; was directly related to events in Florida. Iraqi authorities had warned of&nbsp; &nbsp; the prospect of such an incident. &nbsp; &quot;Without a doubt it is linked to Florida,&quot; he said by telephone from&nbsp; &nbsp; Baghdad. &quot;The book-burning is huge news in Iraq at the moment. Every&nbsp; &nbsp; newspaper, every television station and radio, they&#039;ve all been covering it.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 767977, member: 12952"] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bonfire-of-one-mans-vanity-2075472.html[/url] Their calls for the event to be cancelled came as reports emerged from Baghdad of an apparent revenge attack on Iraq's only operating Anglican church, St George's. According to two eyewitnesses, up to four people were killed after gunmen opened fire on guards outside the church, which lies in a compound just outside the comparative safety of the Green Zone. It has been targeted by extremists before but Canon Andrew White, the British-born vicar of St George's, said he believed that yesterday's attack was directly related to events in Florida. Iraqi authorities had warned of the prospect of such an incident. "Without a doubt it is linked to Florida," he said by telephone from Baghdad. "The book-burning is huge news in Iraq at the moment. Every newspaper, every television station and radio, they've all been covering it." [/QUOTE]

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