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...rebuild from this?" asks Sayyed Ali Hakim, a Shi'a cleric dressed in a long light brown tunic, leaning on his cane as he sat on a shaded sidewalk for a rest. He had shared the basement of his old traditional stone house with 70 other people, mainly family. The building above them was destroyed in the fighting and the terrified people hiding below were forced to ration food and water and sit it out. "It was a nightmare," he says. Similar tales are told by other survivors as they slowly trickle out of the underground refuges and make their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surveying the Damage in Bint Jbeil | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...have to move very fast!" He paused amid the devastation to point out the pulverized office blocks in the Harat Hreik district where Hizballah's headquarters had stood only a week earlier. "Now I have no place to work," said Naboulsi, the son of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizballah Nation | 7/24/2006 | See Source »

...insists violence will abate as more Iraqi soldiers and police deploy, but the U.N. report points out that "new recruits are primary targets of the insurgency." In a rare statement last week, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, called on Iraqis "to unite and forsake hatred and violence. Replace it with love and peaceful dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need To Know: The Rising Toll in Iraq | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...RETIRED. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 69, as the Pope's chief spokesman, after more than 20 years as the unflappable public face of the Vatican; in Vatican City. A confidant of John Paul II, the Spanish-born former journalist-the first non-cleric to take the job-modernized the Vatican's information service and helped move the Holy See into the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...days following Omar Farooq's harrowing experience, his family quickly acquired fake IDs for all its children. Seeking police protection was never an option - many of the cops in the neighborhood are former members of the Mahdi Army, the violent Shi'ite militia loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The family didn't feel it could turn to Shi'ite neighbors for support, either. Since the Feb. 22 bombing of the Shi'ite mosque in Samarra, relations between Shi'ites and Sunnis in mixed neighborhoods have turned frosty. Omar stopped speaking with the Shi'ite friends who used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Your Name Can Be a Death Sentence | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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