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...Khoei had a powerful rival for influence among Iraq's Shiites. His own claim to succeed the 73-year-old Sistani as Grand Ayatollah (the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites) was eclipsed only by that of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, whose father had been the Grand Ayatollah before al-Khoei's, and whose family had suffered bitterly at the hands of Saddam's regime. Hakim, who as a Grand Ayatollah has a higher theological standing than al-Khoei, is better known to outsiders as the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI...
Ayatollah al-Hakim had announced on Monday that he would return to Iraq within days. But al-Khoei's role may also have challenged the ambitions of Mullah al-Sadr. Even as Ayatollah al-Khoei returned to An Najaf, Mullah al-Sadr had sought to take control of humanitarian relief for the area. Although he had not met U.S. commanders himself, he had sent representatives to meetings with the Americans, who believe his ability to command substantial financial resources reflects backing from Tehran...
...Still, responses among Shiite leaders to "Operation Iraqi Freedom" have been decidedly ambiguous. While al-Khoei maintained ties with the U.S. military, al-Hakim's organization urged its supporters to remain passive. Saddam was the greater evil, they said, and Shiites should not fight to defend the regime. But SCIRI's supporters did not launch an uprising in support of the invasion, probably because of the bitter experience of 1991 when the Shiites were betrayed by the U.S. - the mass influx of SCIRI fighters from Iran during the 1991 uprising had been one reason the first Bush administration refrained from...
...Many Arabs predict that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops will in effect become another faction in the country's violent politics. Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al Hakim, head of the Supreme council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has already warned that U.S. liberators may soon become hated occupiers. Arab regimes worry that an occupation will be Osama bin Laden's dream come true: a rallying cry for Islamic extremism not just in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. While Arab governments are wary of a U.S. occupation and its colonialist overtones, they equally fear the consequences if the Bush administration...
...Germany and Canada to help," says a U.S. official. American sources say political turmoil has made it difficult to tell whether hard-liners in Tehran can stomach siding with the U.S. A senior Iranian official tells TIME that his government signaled that it wants to cooperate by allowing al-Hakim's brother to attend a meeting of opposition groups in Washington on Aug. 9. "The sending of Hakim was hugely important to us," says this source. On the other hand, says another official, Tehran was burned by the Bush Administration's reaction to Iran's discreet help...