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Najaf, Renewed; The religious center sways the world's 170 million Shiites--and its clerics will play an enormous role in the evolution of Iraq.(Cover Story)
Byline: Yitzhak Nakash, Nakash is chair of the program of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University, and the author of "The Shi'is of Iraq."
April 9, 2003, will be remembered as the day when much of Baghdad tumbled into American hands. In Firdos Square, U.S. Marines lashed a towering statue of Saddam Hussein to their armored vehicle and pulled it down to the cheers of an elated Iraqi crowd.
Yet barely a day later, an equally powerful, if less noticed, event took place 195 kilometers south of Baghdad, in the Shiite city of Najaf. Inside the shrine of Imam Ali, an angry mob stabbed to death Abdel Majid al-Khoei--a moderate cleric who was ...
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