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...aftermath of Iraq's first war with the United States, with the country's southern provinces devastated and the Baathist regime engaged in ferocious repression of Shi'a, Iraqis migrated throughout the area looking for work and safety. In this environment, migrants from the city of Hilla bought the land near Najaf and built a miniature community complete with bakery and infirmary. It also included a school where the sect taught its beliefs. The arrival of this new group raised few eyebrows. It's not unusual in rural areas of Iraq for extended families to buy property and then bring...
...massive amounts of weapons, some quite sophisticated, that they used against the Iraqi military and American air power? One of the group's former neighbors in Najaf used to be the Al Quds Army - a militia Saddam had organized supposedly to liberate Jerusalem from the Israelis. In the aftermath of the American invasion of 2003 the al Quds Army abandoned its base. In a scene repeated across Iraq in 2003, that Iraqi military installation was looted by the Army of Heaven, which helped itself to Kalashnikov rifles, grenade launchers and surface-to-air missiles. During the battle, an American helicopter...
...Iraq invasion and its chaotic aftermath have damaged the U.S. for the foreseeable future. The basic premise for going to war was wrong, and Bush's and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's team made grievous mistakes that will forever define Bush's presidency. Will a troop surge help? No, it will continue to fill the President's last years in office with dead soldiers and ever increasing anger and threats. Fred Adkins London...
...According to Iraqi soldiers involved in the battle and its aftermath, the group's leader, Ahmad al-Hassaani al-Yamani, planned to lead his followers into Najaf and kill the Shi'a religious leaders there. Chief among the targets would have been Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the most revered Shi'a cleric in Iraq. His rivals slain, al-Yamani planned to lead his followers into the Imam Ali shrine, the resting place of Mohammad's son-in-law and one of Shi'a Islam's holiest sites...
...Serbia's other perspective candidate for the top job, the acting Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, was much calmer about the impact of Ahtisaari's plan. "It is absolutely irrelevant when he will give his proposal, before or after the government is formed," Kostunica told journalists in the aftermath of the elections...