- All This Talk of Civil War, Now This (March 2, 2004)
...er said to have been written by an al-Qa'ida operative, advocating a Sunni-Shia conflict. Normally sane journalists have enthusiastically taken up this th... - Signs That Shiites and Sunnis Are Joining to Battle Americans (April 9, 2004)
...ally after the bombing on Wednesday of a mosque compound there. "Sunni, Shia, that doesn't matter anymore," said Sabah Saddam, a 32-year-old government... - They Look Like al Qaeda (July 28, 2002)
...tely saw that the pamphlets found on the men were in fact invitations to a Shia muslim religious gathering in eastern Pakistan. The names listed were the... - US Signals Opposition to Islamic Iraqi State (April 25, 2003)
...lled that they will not accept moves by sections of the country's majority Shiite community to create an Islamic state. But the American and British gene... - Basra 'Uprising' Evaporates (March 26, 2003)
...isappointment for the coalition, which had hoped to take the predominantly Shia Muslim city without a fight and — with the help of humanitarian aid — make... - US Told to Avoid Main Shia Area in Baghdad (October 10, 2003)
...A powerful Shia Muslim movement warned US troops on Friday not to enter Baghdad's largest... - Think the Unthinkable: Partition Iraq (May 18, 2004)
... least the creation of a loose confederation in which the Kurds, Sunni and Shia would autonomously govern their own affairs. Had the Clinton administratio... - Iranian Diplomat Gunned Down in Baghdad (April 15, 2004)
...o Iran's efforts at mediating the standoff between U.S. forces and radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the man at the centre of recent violence in Najaf.... - US Unprepared to Prevent Rise of Fundamentalist Iraqi Government (April 23, 2003)
...As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future mount, Bush administration of... - Iraqi Shiite Split Widens (October 15, 2003)
...a young hot-head or a talented and pious son of one of Iraq's most revered Shiite clerics. But whomever you ask, he's clearly making waves and throwing the... - Iraq Shi'ite Group Vows to Shun US-Named Council (June 7, 2003)
...BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim group said Saturday it would not join an interim political council... - US Military: "We Will Destroy This Cleric's Army" (April 8, 2004)
... United States military yesterday vowed to destroy the army of the radical Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, which has fought running battles with coalition t... - Shiites Feel Betrayed by Americans (July 2, 2003)
...A leader of a prominent Shiite group accused the Bush administration on Wednesday of reneging on pledges... - Only 200 Hard-Core Qaeda Members (July 29, 2002)
... "Now we are concerned that he (bin Laden) might be reaching out to the Shia side, which we have never seen before," a senior FBI official said. "We ar... - Civil War In Iraq, Made In the USA (August 4, 2005)
...Interior Ministry." The Times of London noted on July 18: "Hardline Shia militias are patrolling large parts of Baghdad, often rounding up suspecte... - Shia Protests Spread to Basra (April 6, 2004)
...Iraqis loyal to a radical Shia Muslim cleric have occupied the governor's office in Basra in protest at c... - Shiite Clerics Urge Nonviolent Resistance (August 16, 2003)
...BAGHDAD — Shiite Muslim clerics urged followers during prayers yesterday to resist the U.S.... - U.S. Tanks Enter Najaf Cemetery to Pursue Insurgents (May 15, 2004)
...holy city on Friday, turning its sprawling cemetery, sacred to the world's Shiite Muslims, into a battlefield. Tanks roared among the tombs, backed by h... - Rallying Around an Insurgent City (April 9, 2004)
...r "your sons and brothers in struggling Fallujah." And across the capital, Shiite Muslims joined Sunnis in rolling up their sleeves and reaching into their... - Iraqi Leaders Reject Election Fears (September 16, 2004)
...Iraqi Shia political leaders insisted on Thursday that elections scheduled for Januar... - Why the Mullahs Love a Revolution (April 24, 2003)
...olice. Into that vacuum stepped the Islamic Revolutionary Komitehs, run by Shiite clerics operating from the local mosques. The Komitehs took over not only... - How Bombs Tore Apart a Festival of Hope (March 2, 2004)
...It was the Shia's 11 September: a massacre of men, women and children who tried helplessly... - Struck Down in Baghdad, US Tries to Involve the United Nations (January 19, 2004)
... to whom to give power? By which process? Can one reject the claims of the Shiite majority which seeks elections without disqualifying the legitimacy of the... - Bush Walks Fine Line on Sadr-Hizbullah Link (April 15, 2004)
... Bush stopped short of accusing Hizbullah of having a direct link to Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in his statement on the situatio... - Ties Frayed Between US and Iraqi Council (November 10, 2003)
... spend enough time overseeing Cabinet ministries. Mouwafak al-Rabii, a Shiite Muslim member of the Governing Council and a longtime human rights activis... - Suicide Bomber Wounds 58 US Soldiers in Iraq (December 9, 2003)
...ortly after morning prayers, Iraqi police said. Local clerics blamed rival Shiite Muslims for the attack, but Shiite political leaders denied the charge. ... - Iraqi Unrest Grows as More Soldiers Die (July 21, 2003)
...r Hussein's 35-year rule. ''No, no Americans after today!'' chanted the Shi'ite demonstrators as they drew close to a solid line of about 30 US Marines. O... - Iraqi 'Beaten to Death' by US Troops (April 14, 2004)
... beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today. The motoris... - The Crime We Must Prevent (December 4, 2002)
... the first signs of a popular uprising. The primary victims would be Iraqi Shiite Muslims in the south and Kurds in the north. Both communities were encoura... - Iraq Rebels Oppose US Strike to Topple Gov't (June 29, 2002)
... result in the occupation of the Arab country. SCIRI is Iraq's largest Shi'ite Muslim dissident organization and claims to have up to 8,000 fighters oper... - New Flag Raises Anger Among Iraqi Students (April 28, 2004)
...marines in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and with followers of wanted radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr in central Iraq. University guards fired warning sh... - Interim Iraqi Government (June 1, 2004)
...th Party members who had fled the country. Born in 1945 to a prominent Shia Muslim merchant family, he trained as a neurologist. Mr Allawi is seen as... - Karbala Attackers Reported To Have Taken $60,000 (February 13, 2004)
...lamists want to broaden the scope of their attacks so as to also cover the Shi'ite regions. Additionally, they want to weaken the pressure and the investigat... - Iraq's Allawi Interviewed on Elections, Wanted Iraqis in Syria, Ties With Jordan (December 23, 2004)
...ed to be made on sectarian bases. As is known, there are groups, including Shiite groups like the so-called Al-Sadr current, which are calling for boycottin... - At Least 95 Dead in Najaf Explosion (August 29, 2003)
...powerful car bomb tore through a crowded street next to Iraq's most sacred Shiite Muslim shrine today, killing at least 95 people, including an influential... - Iraqi Protesters Oust US-Appointed Governor (December 12, 2003)
... described the passionate but peaceful demonstration in this predominantly Shiite Muslim city as a preview of what U.S. occupiers will face if they follow t... - All Eyes on the Man Who Stepped into Iraqi Inferno (June 30, 2004)
... intelligence and the CIA — more doubts about his allegiances; and he is a Shiite but secular — more ambivalence for Shiite conservatives. For all that,... - Murder Warrant Issued for Shiite Cleric Months Ago: U.S. (April 5, 2004)
...IRAQ - An Iraqi judge issued a warrant last year for the arrest of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the man linked to a deadly uprising over the weeke... - Second Blast Kills Scores of Civilians (March 30, 2003)
...erica's war to "liberate" Iraq means only inexplicable grief to these poor Shia Muslims from the suburb of Shu'la in north-east Baghdad. Dr Inam Mohamm... - Why the Capture Could Make Things Worse (December 21, 2003)
... prisoner , Iraqis in the Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and in the Shia-dominated parts of Baghdad and the south, expressed their joy in a spontan... - Iran Rejects Military Rule by US in Iraq (October 25, 2002)
...e largest such group is commanded by Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, the Shia leader of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, who has lived... - UN Debates Iraqi Self-Rule Resolution (July 22, 2003)
...e constitutional council has been criticised as undemocratic by the senior Shia cleric in Iraq, the Ayatollah Ali Sistani. The BBC's Paul Wood, in Bag... - US Troops Hit Mosque in Iraq (April 8, 2004)
...allujah on Wednesday as violence spread from the Sunni town of Fallujah to Shiite cities south of the capital city of Baghdad. Seige on mosque by U... - Courting Disaster: Bush’s Real Strategy in Iraq (June 1, 2004)
...gh comfort to negotiate peace. Although the Sunnis oppressed the Kurds and Shia under Saddam’s rule, the bad blood between groups in Iraq is nowhere near... - CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists (November 16, 2003)
.... 6. The force there considers the holy cities "stable" but notes that Shiite leaders such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussein al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite... - Top Officers Fear Wide Civil Unrest (March 20, 2003)
...aining forces while nearby U.S. troops stayed out of the conflict. "The Shia in the south won't likely fight us," said a veteran U.S. military intellig... - To Vote Or Not To Vote (December 2, 2004)
...insisted that the elections be held on time. Members of the predominant Shia political groupings, such as Al-Daawa Party and the Supreme Council for Is... - Biography of Muqtada al-Sadr (June 1, 2004)
...t year. They have since been faced with the organized resistance of the Shiite youth in Shiite areas of Iraq especially, in the cities of holy Al-Najaf a... - How America Created a Terrorist Haven (August 20, 2003)
... was centered in the Sunni heartland. But the recent riots in the southern Shiite city of Basra, and the sabotage of a major oil pipeline in the Kurdish nor... - Troops Kill 10, Injure 100 Firing on Iraqi Protesters (April 15, 2003)
...g out the country's future leadership in the southern city of Nasiriyah, a Shiite Muslim bastion where 20,000 people marched through the city chanting "No t... - The 'Iraqization' Scam (April 20, 2004)
...In the wake of the embarrassing Shiite uprising and Fallujah catastrophe, George W. Bush said at his April 13 pre... - Mideast Invasions Face Unexpected Perils (March 19, 2003)
..., an arrangement that exacerbated conflicts with Iraq's larger Kurdish and Shia Muslim populations. It didn't help when the British lobbed artillery shell... - Democracy Might Be Impossible, US Was Told (August 14, 2003)
... on the Syrian government, would also open up the opportunity for Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims to reconnect with Shi'ite religious leaders in the southern Iraqi... - Church in Pakistan Is Attacked, Killing Five and Wounding 40 (March 17, 2002)
...killed since Sept. 11. There has been a surge of sectarian killings of Shia doctors in recent weeks in Karachi, Pakistan, long know as a city with con... - Iraqi PM prepared to offer amnesty to insurgents (July 5, 2004)
...presence. For instance, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's pre-eminent Shia religious leader, has urged his followers to give the interim government a... - Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya Come Under Renewed US Criticism (April 13, 2004)
...y Al-Jazeera and other anti-coalition media reporting" on the closure of a Shiite radical newspaper and the siege of the insurgent bastion of Fallujah. I... - US Newspaper Ban Plays Into Cleric's Hands (March 31, 2004)
...y to protest the closure of al-Hawza newspaper, the mouthpiece for radical Shi'ite leader Muqtada Sadr. They demanded an apology from the Americans for insul... - Baghdad Residents Protest US Troops (April 18, 2003)
...ence after the prayers, and called for solidarity between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslims. In the Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyeh, thousands of Shiite... - Northern Iraq Could Become Second Palestine (May 28, 2003)
...ffort, are concentrated in the northern and southern parts of the country. Shiites comprise the largest religious group in Iraq, and the authority that repre... - Kurdish Region in Northern Iraq Will Keep Special Status (January 5, 2004)
...vided into a Kurdish enclave in the north, a Sunni one in the center and a Shiite one in the south. But this idea has little support at the Iraqi Governing... - Iraq Council Recommends Allawi for Prime Minister in Spite, or Because, of US Ties (May 28, 2004)
...ut in charge of the new government. Allawi's following includes secular Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Kurds. He is also the top security official on... - The Fallujah Gamble Begins (November 9, 2004)
...raqi government, led by Mr Allawi, a secular politician from the country’s Shia Muslim majority. In recent weeks, as talks with civic leaders in Fallujah... - World Powers, Neighbours Unite Behind Iraqi Elections In January (November 23, 2004)
...l-being of Iraq." Iran, a strict Islamic republic which shares the same Shiite faith as the majority of Iraq's population, stands to see its regional sta... - Four Bombings Kill 13 in Iraq (December 28, 2003)
...rdinated car bombings Saturday outside the bases of U.S.-led forces in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing six soldiers from Bulgaria and Thailand as w... - Kurds' Deaths Could Alter Iraq's Shape (February 2, 2004)
...by May 31 but many Sunni and Kurdish groups oppose holding them that soon. Shias comprise more than 60 percent of the population, while Sunnis, Kurds and s... - Saddam Husayn Denies Any Link to Al-Najaf Explosion (September 1, 2003)
...th him. He is the leader of all the great Iraqi people -- Arabs and Kurds; Shiites and Sunnis; Muslims and non-Muslims. Saddam Husayn does not attribute this... - Chechen Attacks on Russia: A Harbinger for the United States? (September 6, 2004)
...s. Although for the time being, the U.S. military caused the withdrawal of Shiite radical forces from the southern cities of Najaf and Karbala, it also had... - Another Day In The Bloody Death Of Iraq (September 21, 2003)
...in Baghdad under his regime, there was mass murder in Kurdistan and in the Shia south of Iraq. Tens of thousands have been found in the mass graves of Ira... - George Bush's New Imperialism (August 4, 2002)
...a small city with a predominantly Jewish and Christian population; and the Shia south. The result was an unstable, artificial, Frankenstein state – a Mide... - US Headquarters Bombed in Baghdad (November 4, 2003)
...uck the southern cities of Najaf and Karbala, religious centres for Iraq's Shia majority. The two cities have seen clashes between factions supporting riv... - CIA to Build Secret Police Force in Iraq (January 4, 2004)
... Agency. Its ranks are to be drawn from Iraqi exile groups, Kurdish and Shi'ite forces — in addition to former mukhabarat agents who are now working for t... - Garner Begins to Shape Iraq's Interim Administration (April 24, 2003)
...s with Tehran over US accusations that Iran was trying to influence Iraq's Shiite Muslims, who represent 60 percent of Iraq's population. Iranian Foreign... - CIA Plans New Iraqi Spy Agency Using Baathist Agents (December 11, 2003)
...e agency will be headed by Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Badran, a secular Shiite and activist in the Jordan-based Iraqi National Accord, a former exile gro... - US Commander Requests Troops in Iraq as Deaths Spiral Upwards (April 13, 2004)
...rained Iraqi policemen had defected to the insurgent forces of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and other Iraqi security forces had failed to fulf... - US Soldiers Fire Into Baghdad Crowd (August 14, 2003)
...rth of Baghdad, guerrillas killed two American troops. In Sadr City, a Shiite Muslim slum, about 3,000 demonstrators gathered around a telecommunication... - Italy Vows to Stay Course in Iraq (November 12, 2003)
... driving a petrol tanker rammed Italian police headquarters in Nasiriya, a Shia Muslim town in the south of the country. It was the single biggest los... - Sectarian Discord in Iraq (February 13, 2004)
...dealt with it as a terrorist sect because Saddam was Sunni. It favored the Shiite sect and its members in order to eliminate this sect's revolutionary tradi... - Live From Baghdad (November 25, 2002)
...n like Saddam, Iraq could descend into violent strife among Sunni Muslims, Shi'ite Muslims and Kurds. "I've told my wife to stop listening to these scenarios... - US Pursues Ex-Generals to Topple Iraq Leader (March 11, 2002)
...hington, US officials have met with two former generals – Fawzi Shamari, a Shiite officer, and Najib Salhi, a former Republican Guard commander. In London,... - Chairman Walks Out of Afghan Council (December 31, 2003)
... and of ignoring their proposed amendments. Sheik Muhammad Asif Mohseni, a Shiite mujahedeen leader, complained that five items agreed to by the working com... - How to Get Out of Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...tes were killed in the six months following the collapse of the March 1991 Shiite uprising. One mass grave near Hilla may contain as many as 30,000 bodies. ... - Hussein's Capture May Not Stop Attacks (December 15, 2003)
...Hussein but now the country is complete," said Hadi Jassem, one of several Shiite marchers brandishing flags. Coalition officials and senior Iraqis hail... - Iraqi Civil War Brewing (August 29, 2003)
...What is clear is that his death will now forever be a rallying cry for the Shi'ite community against its enemies. It is notable that in Shi'ism virtually... - Iran Says US Undermined Efforts to Stabilize Iraq (April 19, 2004)
...-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq’s most powerful Shiite cleric. “We couldn’t meet Sadr or Ayatollah Sistani ... because of lac... - Illusions of Iraqi Democracy (October 8, 2002)
...m and religious and ethnic factionalism. Every community -- Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites -- fends for itself and has built an "iron wall" to shield its members. Ci... - US Asks Former Baathist Army Officers to Help Create Force (April 23, 2004)
... new national force. Bremer's statements came the same day a rebellious Shiite cleric, Moqtada Sadr, threatened to launch suicide bombings if U.S. forces... - Islamists Gain Votes as U.S. Acts (November 6, 2002)
...14 in the last election. In Bahrain, most of whose people belong to the Shiite branch of Islam, Parliament — the first elected in nearly 30 years — would... - US Launches Massive Crackdown in Iraq (December 18, 2003)
...curred in the Sunni "triangle". Saddam, a Sunni, repressed Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslims. Iraqi police shot dead one person when demonstrators burned th... - Who's Who in Iraq (October 11, 2002)
...to have taken part in the repression of the uprisings by the Kurds and the Shias after the Gulf War. He is a member of the key Revolution Command Counc... - US Planes Strike Iraqi Air-Defense Facility (July 13, 2002)
...es, which the Iraqi government does not recognize, were imposed to protect Shiite Muslims in the south and a Kurdish enclave in the north from possible atta... - The Battle Between Rumsfeld and the Pentagon (April 7, 2003)
... Perhaps the biggest disappointment of last week was the failure of the Shiite factions in southern Iraq to support the American and British invasion. Va... - Attacks Force Retreat From Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq (December 27, 2003)
...senior leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite Muslim political party that is cooperating with the U.S. occupation author... - How Not to Overthrow Saddam (July 15, 2002)
...liberty. Kurdish speakers emphasized "a federal democratic Iraq." An Iraqi Shiite spokesman envisaged a democratic Iraq with equal rights "for the minoritie... - Al-Qaeda or Not, Al-Zarqawi's Worth $10m (February 18, 2004)
...t by non-Iraqis. Foreigners had been blamed in the car bombing that killed Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim and many of his followers in Augus... - Remarks of Gen. Anthony Zinni Opposing War with Iraq (August 23, 2002)
...th other countries in the region to try to keep Iraq together as Kurds and Shiites try and split off, you're going to have to make a good case for that. And... - Saddam's July 8th Speech (July 8, 2003)
...ide proud Iraq to say: Your main task now -- as Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen; Shiites and Sunnis; Muslims and Christians; and under all titles and of all religi... - Doubts on Iraqi Security as US Draws Down (February 17, 2004)
...r Al Qaeda's assistance to foment a civil war by attacking Iraq's dominant Shiite community. But in Fallujah, the identity of the culprits is proving not... - Top General Sees Extended War (March 28, 2003)
... going to go much farther." The city, considered an important center of Shiite Muslim culture, also acts as a gateway to Karbala and the western approach... - US to Appoint Council in Iraq (June 2, 2003)
...g Iraqis to choose their leadership could deepen schisms between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, ethnic Arabs and Kurds, as well as formerly exiled political lead... - Baghdad Suicide Bomber Aims for FBI and CIA (October 13, 2003)
... attack on the United Nations' headquarters and the bombing of a prominent Shia cleric at a mosque. Those attacks killed more than 120 people. As smok... - Ansar al-Islam Founder Thinks New Attacks on US Unlikely (December 28, 2003)
...occupation and are sending clear signals to the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south not even to think of starting a civil war against the Sunnis.... - Blueprint for a Mess (November 2, 2003)
...nnical rule. His background is in mathematics and banking, he is a secular Shiite Muslim and he had not been in Baghdad since the late 1950's. But in the ea... - Iraqi Fear: 'Now We Have 100 Saddams' (September 21, 2003)
...t be. But a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Azad Ali Sistani, a moderate Shiite leader who resides in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, said Islam forbids "to... - Time to Leave (June 3, 2004)
...ws its forces, Iraq could face a violent power struggle between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds or between rival factions of the same sectarian group. Bu... - America Rattles Saddam's Cage, Hoping He Will Lash Out (July 13, 2002)
... by Saddam Hussein, such as invading a neighbour or attacking the Kurds or Shia Muslims in the south, before the US war machine started to roll. Like the... - Western Warplanes Hit Iraqi Air Defenses (June 26, 2002)
...rthern and southern Iraq, set up in 1991 to protect the areas' Kurdish and Shiite populations from what the allies describe as military threats from Baghdad... - Kurds Brush Up on Human Rights (March 11, 2003)
...wanted to divide the Kurds from the Arabs, the Kurds from other Kurds, the Shia from the Sunni," says Hero Anwar, a program manager for REACH, a local Kur... - Iraq Condemns Strike on Airport (September 26, 2002)
...g the areas off limits to Iraqi aircraft to protect Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south. Those patrols routinely launch airstrikes, with allies s... - Military Leaders Favor Status Quo in Iraq (July 28, 2002)
...aq would be to prevent the creation of an independent state in the heavily Shiite south, or an independent Kurdish state in the north. To fulfill U.S. promi... - Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
...Laden and his followers also sought to accomplish philosophically what the Shi'ite Ayatollah Khomeini aspired to but never achieved: taking Islamic radicalis... - Morning in Iraq? (July 6, 2004)
...ited States and remembering that the United States abandoned the Kurds and Shia to slaughter by Saddam after encouraging them to rise up after the first G... - US Blames Blast on Bomb Class as Iraqi Ire Simmers (July 2, 2003)
...ve to deal with. We have got three huge, warring factions — the Kurds, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims," McCaffrey, who retired in 1996, told the BBC.... - Hostages of the Empire (July 1, 2003)
...h regime-change offensive against Iran, the British troops controlling the Shia-dominated south of Iraq will be seen not merely as uninvited occupiers but... - To Rebuild Afghanistan, Look Next Door (February 28, 2002)
...pported the Hezb-i-Wahdat group, which represented the interests of Afghan Shiites and particularly the Hazara ethnic minority. During the period of Taliban... - Rumblings in Iran (December 11, 2002)
...ryone. He was convicted of blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed, insulting the Shiite imams of Iran, and insulting the state's ruling religious authorities. ... - Negroponte Chosen as US Ambassador to Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...nterests abroad. It is probable those figures would come one each from the Shia, Sunni and Kurd factions. The exercise will be portrayed by London and... - On the Dark Side of Democracy (January 31, 2004)
...e list, Ms. Chua said. "It's a big mess," she said. "You have a 60 percent Shiite majority that has long been oppressed and has just every reason to take ba... - Britain Tried First. Iraq Was No Picnic Then. (July 20, 2003)
...h. The districts were composed, respectively, of Kurds, Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims, all of whom hated each other — and the British even more. For one... - General Calls Insurgency in Iraq a Sign of U.S. Success (April 16, 2004)
...pronged insurgency that has killed more than 80 U.S. troops since April 1, Shiite Muslim clerics tried to broker a deal to end a standoff between occupation... - Diminished Expectations (March 25, 2003)
... is already developing in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, whose largely Shiite population is hostile to the Hussein regime and was expected to welcome th... - Seeking Honesty in US Policy (September 14, 2003)
...infighting that Middle East experts feared could still erupt. The majority Shiite Muslim population, brutalized during Saddam's rule, is content with a tact... - Losses, Before Bullets Fly (March 7, 2003)
...n the hard part begins ? the day after Saddam has toppled, when we may see Shiites slaughtering Sunnis in southern Iraq; thousands of armed Iraqi exiles pour... - US Anti-Guerrilla Campaign Draws Iraqi Ire (June 16, 2003)
... start of the 20th century and now we're in the 21st century" says Mukhlis Shia Khanfer, another member of the congress and a professor of business at Al-... - Drug Addiction, Dealing See Boom In Baghdad (June 2, 2003)
...veness of the Iraqi society," said the society’s chairman Anis Al-Rawi. Shiite scholars also warned against the spread of drugs, alcoholics, and prostitu... - America Brings Democracy: Censor Now, Vote Later (June 22, 2003)
...s as Bosnia was. At least 80 percent of the population — the country's Shia Muslims and Kurds — are glad that Mr. Hussein is gone. Many Sunnis are thr... - Pause in Glee to Ask: Were Supporters Misled? (April 27, 2003)
...onal exuberance in Washington is degenerating into a bit of a farce. Iraqi Shiite clerics are telling us to get out and take our notions of nation building... - Karzai Appeals to Iran and US to Make Up (February 25, 2002)
... countries became closer and cooperated to bring down the Taliban. Iran, a Shiite Muslim country, had opposed the Sunni Muslim Taliban from the time they ga... - How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
...south might bond with their fellow religionists in Iran, strengthening the Shiite mullahs, and threatening the Saudi border. In the north, the Kurds were ag... - Bush Blasts No-Fly Zone Fire (October 1, 2002)
...ates' right to conduct the patrols — designed to protect Kurdish and Shiite populations from Hussein — saying they infringe on Iraqi sovereignty... - Iraq's Occupiers Suspected of Losing Touch with Reality (September 20, 2003)
...fwan. These helicopters were then used in the brutal repression of the Shia Muslim and Kurdish rebellions against Saddam which had been encouraged by... - Why the Anti-War Movement Was Right (April 16, 2003)
...take that the wrong way? If there is one thing that could bring Sunnis and Shiites together, it's the common hatred of evangelical zealots who denigrate thei... - Hussein Was Not in Hiding But a Captive (December 14, 2003)
... terror against Americans, whether on behalf of the Hizballah, the Iranian Shiite fundamentalists, al Qaeda or for himself. The Lebanese arch-terrorist repr... - How Many Body Bags? (November 4, 2003)
...ey need to operate in the short run and similarly aid the more established Shiite groups. It can beg the United Nations Security Council to take over this m... - Iraq Policy Is Broken (July 14, 2003)
...ts where the power lies. Today the United States gets to decide which Shiite leader will be mayor of Najaf—thereby annoying 100 other contenders. Meanw... - The Perils Of Empire (April 20, 2003)
...on is still criss-crossed with rivalries and blood feuds between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Conservative sheiks sit uneasily upon their precarious thrones. T... - US Envisions Blueprint on Iraq Including Big Invasion Next Year (April 28, 2002)
...The parallel strategy in Iraq would involve the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south. But Mr. Hussein's military, while only one-third its strengt... - Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality (February 23, 2002)
...iate-led Iraqi National Congress (INC), the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Shiite population in the south, are nominally allied under a broad opposition umb... - Outrage Spreads in Arab World (March 30, 2003)
...nvestigating whether its forces caused the market blast Friday in a mainly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. But many Arabs said the bloodshed was clearly the... - Women Under Siege (December 29, 2003)
...breaking Islam's tenets if they took jobs. Omar's response was to approach Shiite clerics throughout the country and convince them to issue fatwas permittin... - Schwarzkopf Skeptical About Action in Iraq (January 28, 2003)
...i helicopter gunships were used to put down revolts against Hussein in the Shiite south and the Kurdish north of Iraq. Only later were "no-fly zones" establ... - President Seeks UN Backing for Action (September 6, 2002)
...25 attacks so far this year in the southern no-fly zone, set up to protect Shiite Muslims in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War. There have been at least 10 atta... - Iraq's Clear, Present Danger (June 8, 2003)
...ds. With Saddam loyalists creating new political parties and anti-American Shiite clerics building their bases of support, the Americans leading efforts to... - GIs Fire on Family in Car, Killing 2 (January 13, 2004)
...m. on Monday, suspected guerrillas fired rockets in Sadr City, a sprawling Shiite Muslim slum of 2.2 million people in northeastern Baghdad, Captain Beck sa... - Federal Reserve (March 17, 2003)
...ty we want in the Middle East to have Iraq fragmented into separate Sunni, Shia, and Kurd political entities." Specifically, Foggy Bottom fears that if a... - Logistics for Hussein Trial Complex (December 14, 2003)
...Hussein's security forces, including most of an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 Shiite men and boys who were imprisoned in the 1980s. Under the law setting u... - Plan B (June 28, 2004)
...warned President Bush in a letter that they would not participate in a new Shiite-controlled government unless they were assured that their rights under the... - Interview with Chirac (September 22, 2003)
...ections will as a rule give power to the majority. In Iraq the majority is Shiite. But are the Shiites in this analysis the real symbol of tomorrow?s democr... - Senior UN Official Warns Time Not Right For Elections (December 5, 2004)
...t backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority, has been arrested by the US military, an aide said Sunday... - Priest Shot Dead in Bethlehem Church (April 3, 2002)
...ollah rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli positions in the region. The Shiite Hezbollah guerrilla movement's Al-Manar television reported that three Isr... - US Soldier Jailed For Shooting Dead Wounded Iraqi Civilian (December 11, 2004)
...llegedly dropping homemade bombs in Sadr City, the capital's most populous Shiite Muslim neighbourhood, the court heard. Horne's unit started shooting at... - Iraq: In All But Name, the War Is On (August 17, 2002)
...ms and is made up largely of unwilling conscripts, many from the oppressed Shi'ite population, who consider themselves ethnic Iranians rather than Arabs. ... - FBI to Seek Iraqis if War Hits (March 18, 2003)
... on other doors," Alamiri said. Alubeidy, the Pittsburgh resident and a Shiite Muslim, said that along with other refugees he has deep disdain for Hussei... - US Ships al Qaeda Suspects to Arab States (July 26, 2002)
...or hard-line anti-Israel organizations such as Islamic Jihad and Lebanon's Shia Muslim Hizbullah. "Al Qaeda and its associates are not favored by the [... - We Have Ways of Making You Talk (August 22, 2003)
...er and torture in Kuwait under Iraqi occupation in 1990. He helped butcher Shiites when they revolted in 1991. He even slaughtered two of Saddam's traitorous... - Gulf War Cost 158,000 Lives, Researcher's Job (January 5, 2003)
...ear as a direct and indirect result of the U.S.-led attack and the ensuing Shiite and Kurdish rebellions. About a quarter, 40,000, were Iraqi soldiers ki... - $25m Offered by US for Capture of Hussein (July 3, 2003)
...ng the U.S. Army's detention of Ali Abdul Kareem al-Madani, the city's top Shiite cleric. Witnesses said one man was killed and five wounded. But Capt. J... - Iraq Said to Plan Tangling the U.S. in Street Fighting (August 25, 2002)
.... The remaining six divisions are focused on suppressing the resistance of Shiite Muslims in the south. Long stretches of Iraq's border with Iran are virtua... - Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost (August 24, 1998)
...ch has massacred western tourists repeatedly in recent years; Saudi Arabia Shiite militants, responsible for the Khobar Towers and Riyadh bombings of 1996.... - US Facing Bigger Bill For Iraq War (December 1, 2002)
...thnic factions, which include Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in the south. "It's a no-brainer that this is going to cost us more tha... - Why the US Needs the Taliban (July 30, 2003)
...akistani authorities. Besides being anti-Russia, the Taliban are also anti-Shi'ite, or anti-Iran. This added "virtue" of the Taliban has not gone unnoticed i... - Iran: Threat or Victim? (September 2, 2002)
...waters. Washington is also worried about Iran's influence in regions where Shi'ite Muslims are a majority. During the buildup to the war against Afghanis... - Iraqi Opponent Will Leave Iran to Plan Takeover (January 27, 2003)
...s ago. In the interview, Mr. Chalabi acknowledged that the ayatollah, a Shiite Muslim who once favored the installation of an Iranian-style Islamic repub... - What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
...ial’ had said: ‘Hatred of the American occupation has spread rapidly among Shia, and is now so large that Mr Sadr and his forces represent just one elemen... - You Break It, You Pay For It (December 22, 2004)
...r US troops no matter who wins the elections. It was always clear that the Shiite majority, which has been calling for immediate elections for more than a y... - At Least 21 Killed in Attack in Iraq (February 14, 2004)
... for the transfer of power have been shaken by criticism from the powerful Shiite Muslim clergy and growing opposition on the U.S.-picked Governing Council.... - Hold Bush to His Lie (February 5, 2004)
...ule Iraq. "There really is not a Sunni way to pick up the garbage versus a Shiite way," he tells me. (Perhaps, but there is a public way and a private way,... - Red Cross Urges More Security in Iraq (May 6, 2003)
... Aziz al-Hakim from the Supreme Assembly for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite Muslim group, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress and Iyad Allawi... - Wolfowitz the Censor (August 1, 2003)
...owitz's claims involved the station's coverage of an incident in the Iraqi Shiite city of Najaf. "Al-Jazeera ran a totally false report that American tr... - The Empire Backfires (March 29, 2004)
...d dismantled; the institutions of democracy would be flourishing; Kurd and Shiite and Sunni would be working happily together in a federal system; the econo... - Iraq: The Doubters Grow (August 15, 2002)
...nt and prevent the breakup of the country into unstable Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite mini-states? So far, the Bush Administration has not provided honest o... - Afghan Regime Change One Year Later (October 8, 2002)
... ethnic Tajik leader Gen. Atta Mohammed and Mohammed Mohaddeq, head of the Shiite Hazaras, are old rivals each trying to carve out influence in post-9/11 Af... - Fear Emptying Immigrant Enclaves (August 18, 2003)
...8, was a midlevel civil servant in a Pakistani province where middle-class Shiite Muslims like himself were being targeted — with drive-by shootings, accord... - Weaker al Qaeda Shifts to Smaller-Scale Attacks (October 15, 2002)
...r-i-Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim group responsible for the killing of dozens of Shiite Muslims in recent years, had already come under the al Qaeda umbrella and... - US Pilots in Gulf Use Southern Iraq for Practice Runs (November 2, 2002)
...1991 Persian Gulf war to prevent Iraq from carrying out airstrikes against Shiites in southern Iraq and Kurdish forces in the north of the country. The zones... - US Fostering Sinister Sort Of Democracy (August 1, 2003)
... the famous Interim Council — not exactly a bright way to keep a prominent Shia cleric on board. But the council itself is already the subject of much... - Dennis Kucinich and the Question (January 23, 2004)
...cilitate American hegemony. The leader of the largest religious group, the Shiite Muslims, has rejected the plan of the United States repeatedly over the la... - Iraq War Hawks Plan to Reshape Entire Mideast (September 10, 2002)
...me leverage in forcing an end to Syrian support for Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim guerrilla group allied with Iran that opposes Israel. A powerful co... - Allies Preparing for Long Fight as Taliban Dig In (October 28, 2001)
...main city in western Afghanistan, which is on the main routes into Iran, a Shiite Muslim- ruled country firmly at odds with the Sunni Muslim Taliban. In... - Kurds, Secure in North Iraq, Are Cool to US Offensive (July 8, 2002)
...ern border, the first President Bush encouraged Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south to "take matters into their own hands." He then withh... - The United States, Territorial Security and the Threats Against It (November 22, 2004)
...led in the Abu Ghraib prison, intensified their resistance. The 70 percent Shiite population of Iraq, that has had a brilliant record in fighting colonialis... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
... follow suit. There could even be a reverse flow of refugees as many Iraqi Shia exiles in Iran return home, possibly in the thousands, destabilizing areas... - Important Commandments to the Mujahidin and in Reply to the Defeatists (July 5, 2004)
...bered until doomsday in the evil meeting you held with Jawad al-Khalisi (a shiite figure)? You told him at the time: I have heard about your patience and st... - Phoenix Rising (January 1, 2004)
...onal Congress (inc), the Kurdish peshmerga ("facing death") forces and Shiite paramilitary units, especially those of the Iran-backed Supreme Council fo... - Regime Change (January 27, 2003)
...s none of those things. There are three major factions - Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites - with no tradition of democratic rule. "On the basis of past experience,... - Fight to the Death (December 19, 2003)
... done." The Vietnam parallel in Iraq is the hatred between the majority Shiites and Kurds, and the minority Sunnis, who for decades mistreated the rest in... - Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
...slim occupiers. He worried that the Americans would hand power over to the Shia majority, who had suffered far more under the last regime than had the Sun... - The Anti-War Movement Prepares to Escalate (March 14, 2003)
...ter the Gulf War, we specifically made a decision to throw the Kurdish and Shiite uprisings to Saddam's dogs. We could easily wind up in a situation where y... - A Commitment and a True Coalition to Rebuild Iraq (September 1, 2003)
...recent weeks a spate of small flare-ups between locals and troops, even in Shiite areas, suggests that beneath the calm there is restlessness. It is tim... - What Is the Position of the West Regarding Democracy in Saudi Arabia? (February 11, 2004)
...here is the democracy that Bush has promised to the Iraqi people? When the Shiite religious authority Ayatullah al-Sistani is demanding elections, the US ad... - Iraqi Press Summary (19-27 Dec. 2004) (December 27, 2004)
...ion and do not represent their strategic goals. For example, the Sunni and Shiite religious parties aim at establishing an Islamic state; however, there is... - Lack of Planning Contributed to Chaos in Iraq (July 12, 2003)
...ran, Iran, a State Department official said. About the same time, an Iraqi Shiite militia that was based in Iran and known as the Badr Brigade began moving... - 'No Third Way' for US Iraqis (December 26, 2002)
...thnicities, cultures and religions were lassoed into one nation — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and a Christian minority — creating a nationality that... - Old Arab Friends Turn Away (February 26, 2003)
...en Islam and Christianity. Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a leading Shiite cleric in Lebanon, warned this month of a "wave of retardation and myth" r... - Iran's Rafsanjani Says All Terrorists Created by 'US Money, Policy, and Support' (February 27, 2004)
...ble men. These days also mark the anniversary of the bombing of Imam Reza (Shiite eight Imam) shrine (in Mashhad). So, it would be appropriate at this point... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
...had a formidable opponent: Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the most senior Shia cleric in Iraq. al Sistani tried to block Bremer’s plan at every turn, cal... - The War After the War (March 19, 2003)
...ng at will and conducting guerrilla attacks throughout the country. Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish tribal leaders are ruling respective areas and are initiating... - The Geopolitics of War (November 5, 2001)
...rn Iraq (intended to prevent the Iraqis from using this airspace to attack Shiite rebels in the Basra area or to support a new invasion of Kuwait). American... - The Moral Case Against the Iraq War (May 31, 2004)
...lf a dozen other cities portend a nationwide insurgency by both Sunnis and Shiites against the US presence. Yet the latest polls—including one conducted afte... - The Cult of Rajavi (July 13, 2003)
...anks as advance forces to crush the Kurdish uprisings in the north and the Shia uprisings in the south. And former Mujahedeen members remember Maryam Raja... - 40 Years of Iraqi History and News Coverage Considered (October 23, 2002)
...rm a new nation. Iraq's territory comprised a southern region dominated by Shiite Muslim Arabs, a middle section including Baghdad and composed mainly of Su... - Bin Ladin's Former 'Bodyguard' Interviewed on Al-Qa'ida Strategies (August 3, 2004)
...or his people. There was the massacre of Kurds in Halabjah, the killing of Shiites in the south, and the domination and enslavement of the Iraqi people. All... - An Unnecessary War (January 1, 2003)
...orld, starting with Iraq. By late 1979, Tehran was pushing the Kurdish and Shiite populations in Iraq to revolt and topple Saddam, and Iranian operatives we... - From Heroes to Targets? (July 18, 2003)
... insecurity limited to central Iraq. Though there's far less resistance in Shiite southern Iraq, "the climate of fear and insecurity is overwhelming in Basr... - Academia Under Siege (March 31, 2004)
...section of current events and course materials--which included a book on a Shiite village in southern Iraq. "I started framing things in terms of the of... - Selective Intelligence (May 12, 2003)
... in Baghdad. His advocates in the Pentagon point out that he is not only a Shiite, like the majority of Iraqis, but also, as one scholar put it, “a complete... - The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
...gued unsuccessfully that America should support the Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south in their attempts to finish off Saddam. There is an enter... - Counterinsurgency Tactics in Iraq (January 11, 2004)
...o Iraqi security forces, as they hope to do, will fighting break out among Shiites and Sunnis and Kurds? Will the security forces be strong enough to keep or... - The Media and War with Iraq (November 17, 2002)
...all to bits. And what if the mosques defy American occupation? What if the Shiites in the south and the Kurds in the north set up their own civil administrat...
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