Word: shying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government's security forces cannot provide the necessary protection, the believers will do it." AYATOLLAH ALI AL-SISTANI, senior Iraqi Shi'ite cleric, after a bomb shattered the golden dome of the revered Askariya Shrine in Samarra, prompting attacks on dozens of Sunni mosques. Al-Sistani later urged his followers not to attack Sunni holy sites in revenge...
...August: Four months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a car bomb kills leading Shi'ite politician Ayatullah Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim and 90 others near Najaf's Tomb...
...January: A letter found in the possession of a captured al-Qaeda operative details Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's ambitions to provoke Shi'ites and start a civil war in Iraq...
...March: More than 180 Shi'ites in Karbala and Baghdad are killed in suicide bombings...
...April: Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stage an uprising against U.S. troops in several Iraqi cities...