Dawn : Imam shot dead at Syrian mosque

Imam shot dead at Syrian mosque

AFP | September 29, 2007

DAMASCUS : The imam of a Syrian mosque who repeatedly called for holy war against US forces was shot dead after Friday prayers, witnesses and medical sources said.

A gunman stepped from a car and opened fire with an automatic weapon outside his mosque in the northern city of Aleppo, witnesses said.

The preacher was hit in the head and stomach and died later in hospital.