Shia News Update

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Car bomb blast kills at least 7 in Baghdad Shia stronghold
CBC Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia,Canada
The attack on shoppers in the Mureydi market comes just two days after US and Iraqi forces lifted the blockade in the embattled Shia stronghold. ...
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Iraqi coaches kidnapped
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Palestine Street is a relatively prosperous thoroughfare near the Shia slum of Sadr City, a stronghold of hard-line anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose ...

Geopolitical Diary: Washington vs. the Iraqi Shia?
Stratfor - USA
... conflict. We predicted in our fourth-quarter forecast that Iran might instigate militant attacks by the Iraqi Shia against US troops. ...

Divided Iraq
The Daily Reckoning - London,UK
... The Shia Arabs would take the South, the Sunni Arabs would take the West, and the Kurds would take the North. ... He was grossly oppressive to the Shia. ...

Shia leaders fear US favours Sunni alliance
Independent - London,England,UK
The growing differences between the US and the Iraqi government are rooted in the suspicion among leaders of the Shia community that the US would like to ally ...
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Iraqis divided over ending of US siege
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
BAGHDAD: Shia and Sunni leaders sparred yesterday over a government order to lift US checkpoints around a Baghdad militia stronghold as data showed the number ...
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Nasr Discusses Islamic Conflicts With The World Affairs Council
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Philadelphia - The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia presented Dr. Vali Nasr, author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Shape the Future last ...
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Leading Shia scholar supports Shabana on veil
Zee News - Noida,India
Lucknow, Nov 02: All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) vice-president and noted Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq on Thursday supported actress-activist ...

Amnesty and Democracy in Iraq
Strategy Page - USA
November 2, 2006: The inability of the Iraqi government to stop the growing number of revenge killing by Shia Arabs can be attributed to, well, politics. ...
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Shia taken by Iraqi rebels
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Baghdad, Sunni militants took advantage of a traffic jam to carry off the latest in the series of sectarian crimes yesterday - abducting some 40 Shia based on ...