Word: ite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...southern cities, where fierce fighting erupted between Shi'ite rebels and the government, healthworkers were caught in the cross fire. Three floors of Karbala's Husaini hospital were destroyed, and blood and bullet holes are still visible on walls and doors. One doctor there tells of walking down a hallway where dead and wounded lined every inch of the floor and of being unable to tell which stray limb belonged to which body. For weeks, dogs feasted on decomposing remains in the courtyard between the wards...
...State Department once again insisted that to end its commercial and diplomatic isolation from the West, Iran must exert its influence to gain the release of the six American hostages thought to be held by pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki took an equally hard-nosed stance: although indicating that the ordeal of the hostages might end "soon," he repeated his country's long-standing demand that its funds in the U.S. be unfrozen...
...steel gate in front of the stucco house in the Iraqi city of Najaf swings open and a bearded man appears, flanked by two armed policemen. "Go away -- please," says the middle-aged son of Ayatullah Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei, spiritual leader of the world's Shi'ite Muslims. The son trembles and speaks in whispers. Had not other journalists spoken to the Ayatullah? "Yes, and after they left the police came -- and it was worse," he says. "Please go away, and don't come back. Ten of our family and dozens of my father's followers...
...headmistress of a girls' school in Saddam City, a poor Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad, is equally reticent. During the rebellion, soldiers cordoned off the neighborhood for three days and searched every house for weapons, killing 200 people in the process, according to a source close to the Iraqi army. Today all is quiet in the rubbish-strewn streets, but the memory lingers. "Go away," the headmistress entreats when asked simply to comment on daily life in Iraq. "It is dangerous for us and dangerous for the school...
...They would like to see the Shi'ite part of Iraq as their own, but I don't think they will be able to accomplish...