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two wars, one of which included a war crime and terrible after effects for
the Southern Shia communities. And it will be followed by something unknown,
the omens for which do not look very promising. [CW]
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In my immediate area there is a significant Iraqi refugee community: the al
Khoei Foundation is about five minutes' walk from here. Sheikh Abdul Majid
al-Khoei, who lost family in the 1991 uprising, was one of these refugees.
Today Mr Majid was killed in Najaf, at the tomb of Imam Ali. He had gone
back last week (a subversion of the human bomb principle) as an earnest of
better times.
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