Word: imamate
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...euphoria was almost lost over the mosque incident. It began when the local imam, who had spent 20 years under house arrest until the city fell and his captors fled, asked American soldiers to protect him and the mosque. He neglected to explain this, however, to the crowds outside. As the soldiers of Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion, who had formed a tight perimeter on the street, began heading toward the mosque, citizens started shouting and moving forward. With rabble rousers (later identified by Iraqis as Baath Party members) shouting, "The Americans are storming the mosque," the crowd began...
...power struggle among Iraqis to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime may have claimed its first victim Thursday when Ayatollah Abdul Majid al-Khoei was stabbed to death by unknown assailants inside the Imam Ali Mosque, Shiite Islam's holiest shrine, in the city of An Najaf. According to press reports, al-Khoei was killed during a meeting with a rival cleric backed by Saddam's regime over control of the shrine. The reports said al-Khoei had gone to the aid of the regime-backed cleric who had been attacked by a crowd...
...recommends that potassium chloride be used with TNT to enhance the intensity of the blast, a characteristic of the main Bali bomb. Another chapter shows how to use a cell phone as a detonator, a method used in one of the three explosions in Bali. According to Indonesian police, Imam Samudra, the alleged coordinator of the Bali attack, named Azahari as the key bombmaker in his confession...
...alleged bomb maker, detailed sketches of Christian churches. (Laskar Jundullah is openly anti-Christian; Indonesian intelligence officials suspect that the group has been provoking tension in Maluku and Poso.) According to National Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar, one of the men arrested, Suryadi, is an associate of Imam Samudra, whom police say was the mastermind of the Bali bombings and a devotee of Abubakar Ba'asyir, alleged co-founder of JI. "Dwikarna, the bombers, Abubakar?all of these people know each other and are connected in some way," says South Sulawesi Police Chief Firman Gani...
...said to have taken part in the plot. One of them is a man called Amrozi, who has confessed to transporting explosives to the site and was arrested a month after the bombings in his home village hundreds of miles from Bali on the island of Java. Another is Imam Samudra, allegedly one of the key planners of the attack, who was picked up on Nov. 21 after Indonesian police tracked his cell phone. TIME has discovered, however, that investigators believe the incident's real godfathers--those described by one Western intelligence source in the region as the "top tier...