Word: najaf
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...million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then, for a young man who claims to be 30 years old, but whom many of his associates admit is more likely 23. But, as everyone from the U.S. military, the Shiite clerical authorities in Najaf and the leading Iran-based Shiite exile group have discovered in recent weeks, Muqtada's ambitions may be a lot broader than simply running Sadr City. And that's a chilling prospect for U.S. efforts to guide the political transition in Iraq, since Muqtada's supporters are among the most...
Time since water last flowed freely to the 586,000 residents of Najaf...
...never knew where he was buried," Rashid moaned, closing the casket and hoisting it with pallbearers who repeated, "No one but God." The body will be reburied in the holy Shiite city of Najaf...
...million Shiites, around 65 percent of the population, are not by and large secular. They are, indeed, extremely sensitive about having holy cities of Islam on their territory. Yes, Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, but this week's ritual was performed in Kerbala, which along with Najaf are Iraqi cities which have been venerated for 14 centuries by Shiites as the resting places of their two most revered imams, Ali and Hussein. If there was any message for the U.S. from the Shiite throngs, it wasn't, Welcome, liberators. It was, Get out, occupiers...
...first sign came on April 10, not yet 24 hours after the U.S. Marines helped pull down Saddam's statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad. At the Mosque of Ali in Najaf, a gang murdered Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Khoei, the son of the late Grand Ayatullah Abolkassem al-Khoei. The killing was an immense setback for the U.S., since al-Khoei was a moderate who had been courted to play a crucial role in encouraging Iraq's Shiites to cooperate with Washington's nation-building plans. The killers appeared to be supporters of Moktada al Sadr, the young, power...