Word: ites
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...taken up all the parking spaces in a three block radius, and a speaker attached to an immense sound system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from the Prophet Mohammad -- and would only bring him back at the end of time to bestow justice to mankind. Soon you couldn't even hear the phone ring in my apartment. I began text messaging my friends that my party was postponed until next week. Sharing...
When I first noticed my birthday this year would coincide with the birthday of the Twelfth Imam, a revered figure in Shi`ite Islam, the possibility of a scheduling conflict didn't occur to me. After all, the Twelfth Imam, also known as the Hidden Imam or the Mahdi, has been occulted since 874 A.D., and the festivities held in his honor are usually a daytime affair...
...present time. The prospects for U.S. success in Iraq have deteriorated steadily over the past three years, as the insurgency has raged and sectarian conflict has threatened to turn into full-blown civil war. Without cooperation from Iran, which is far closer than Washington is to the Shi'ite parties that dominate the new Iraqi government, the U.S. is unlikely to reverse the slide in Iraq...
...TIME: Should Iraq be divided into Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish zones...
...Khatami: Definitely a bad idea. Iraq should remain unified. The solution is a democratic state. Numerically, the country is majority Shi'ite, but the government is not yet sectarian. The president is a Kurd. The head of the government is a Shi'ite. The Sunnis have great, effective participation. So the breakup of Iraq is very dangerous. A democratic state can prevent from this from taking place...