Word: karbala
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...smoke and bodies.' MOHAMMED KADHEM, witness to a woman's suicide-bomb attack that killed at least 52 people in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala, Iraq...
...have attacks against the innocent people. So yes, it's time, because of the improvement of the situation and security and addition to that, we have many areas where the authority is in the hands of Iraqis - Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, Basra, in Karbala. Because of this improvement, we have to have a plan to accelerate the capability of Iraqi forces in order to make the withdrawal happen...
...might be marked for death by even our allies in the Islamic world, if they think he converted from Islam (for the record, he was never Muslim). By that ornately twisted logic, though, one might add that it was the martyrdom of Hussein in the year 680, beheaded at Karbala in a clash with the caliphate, that gave rise to 1400 years or so of Sunni/Shi'a violence. So how on earth could Obama be a fair broker in Iraq...
...cease-fire had its origins in intra-Shi'a rivalries. Most observers were surprised last August when Sadr's Mahdi Army militia announced a six-month cease-fire, shortly after bloody Shi'ite infighting erupted in Karbala. Thousands of pilgrims had gathered in the city for a Shi'ite festival. Some Sadrists who turned up for the event got into an altercation with local security forces, who are largely loyal to the Sadr movement's chief Shi'ite factional rival, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). Things escalated, and a street tussle turned into a gun battle that left more...
...Sadr's chief political rival Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Until August, the Mahdi Army and the militia wing of al-Hakim's movement, the Badr Brigade, were engaged in a running struggle for influence in southern Iraq, competing for control of everything from gas stations to sacred shrines. The Karbala incident seemed to shock both sides into cooling tensions. But the recent statements suggest the agreement is unraveling. If so, it could draw U.S. troops back into conflict with the Mahdi Army as they work to support Iraqi security forces...