Solemn announcements boomed from mosques across Baghdad on Thursday beseeching Iraqis for donations of blood, money and medical supplies for "your sons and brothers in struggling Fallujah." And across the capital,
Shiite Muslims joined Sunnis rolling up their sleeves and reaching into their pockets. The U.S. Marines' incursion into Fallujah, the eager contributors said, has recast the city long known as the epicenter of the volatile Sunni Triangle as a
freshly minted emblem of shared religious identity. Since a massive multiple suicide bombing on March 2 killed more than 140 people here and in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq has been shaken by assassinations of clerics and attacks on mosques that religious leaders say was calculated to sow mistrust between Shiites and Sunnis. But on Thursday, residents of Kadhimiya, this
overwhelmingly Shiite neighborhood in northern Baghdad, were giving what they could to help Sunni insurgents in Fallujah. "This is the last food in my home," said Lemiya Wan, bent low by age and the effort of pulling a wooden cart laden with rice, sugar and a five-gallon can of cooking oil. "I give it for my brothers in Fallujah and everywhere in Iraq. God bless them. They are my brothers. They didn't do anything, the mujaheddin."
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