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TERROR AT A SHRINE.
- Source :
- Time International (Canada Edition); 9/8/2003, Vol. 162 Issue 10, p20-28, 9p, 6 Color Photographs, 1 Map
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Examines the implications of a car bomb explosion outside a shrine in Najaf, Iraq, which killed Shiite cleric Ayatullah Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim. How this act of violence demonstrates the extraordinary complexity of the challenges facing U.S. troops in Iraq; Details of the blast; Number of dead and injured; Rescue work; Role of U.S. soldiers; Suspects, including al-Qaeda; Reactions of the U.S. George W. Bush administration; The power struggle within the Shiite leadership; Role of Muqtada al-Sadr, head of the radical Shiite organization, the Sadr Group; Denial of al-Sadr of any involvement in the attack; Intensity of the struggle for Shiite supremacy.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03158446
- Volume :
- 162
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Time International (Canada Edition)
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 10872513