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...militants and Iranian agents, no group claimed responsibility. In the 1980s and '90s, Sunni-Shi'a tensions led to sporadic violence, promoted by forces from outside: first from Shi'ite Iran and then from the Sunni Arab states. In recent times, the violence has been homegrown. Tariq headed a militant outfit that backed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and denounced Shi'as as infidels, until it was proscribed in 2002 by the government. He and his followers were implicated in the deaths of scores of Shi'as, including more than 50 killed in a July attack on a mosque...
...Terror in Najaf The terrorist attack on the Shi'ite mosque in Najaf, Iraq, may have achieved a host of objectives for its perpetrators [Sept. 8]. It created a big dent in the American plans for Iraq. It drove a wedge between America and the Shi'ite majority and scared off Iraqis who had been willing to collaborate with the U.S. It also proved that the Shi'ites still have no protector in Iraq. The best response for the U.S. is to shrink the goals of its mission. The old regime has been eliminated. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis; empower...
...coalition paid al-Sadr scant attention until two weeks ago, when an American helicopter tried to knock down a Shi'ite banner from a telecommunications tower in Sadr City. Al-Sadr was able to mobilize tens of thousands of Shi'ites in Baghdad's largest street protest since the end of the war. Even so, a Pentagon official in Iraq says, the CPA has not yet got the full measure of al-Sadr. With his vision of Islamic rule in Iraq, his deep hatred of Americans and his rapidly growing army, al-Sadr is, according to this official, "the most...
People in Najaf and other Shi'ite towns in southern Iraq think they know exactly what al-Sadr is capable of. In the days after Saddam's fall, his bodyguards were accused of knifing to death--at the gates of the mosque where al-Hakim was killed--the moderate cleric Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, who had just returned from exile in London. (At the time, al-Sadr told TIME that the bodyguards involved had been dismissed before the assassination and that he had nothing to do with the killing of al-Khoei.) In April, al-Sadr's supporters surrounded...
...Washington, officials acknowledged the intensity of the struggle for supremacy among the Shi'ites. But they thought it "inconceivable," as one put it, that any Shi'ite could bomb his religion's holiest site. "It would be like a Catholic blowing up the Vatican," said the official. That may be so, but the miserable truth for the U.S. is that it almost doesn't matter whether the bombing was the work of someone within the Shi'ite community or Baathists. Either way, it foreshadows violence among Iraq's various groups. For an occupying force--as the old imperial powers learned...