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(For if they did they would never have sent our young men to war with these people.) “Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims left Karbala on Friday after celebrating the birth of Imam Mahdi, the Shiite saint who is believed to have gone into a state of hiding in the year 873 at the age of 5. Shiites believe he will re-emerge for the salvation of mankind.”

(from Attacks on Shiites Kill Scores in Iraq by Sam Dagher in today’s New York Times)

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