BAGHDAD -- A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council was sentenced to death for kidnapping and murder yesterday, setting off charges that the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government is trying to weaken the Sunni movement, which is credited with much of the reduction of sectarian violence since 2006.
The Sunni leader, Adil al-Mashhadani, who led the Awakening militia in the impoverished Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad, was arrested in March on charges of terrorism.
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