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March 12, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030311/UKUWAM/International/Idx

Shia Muslims Gird for Insurrection

(Toronto Globe and Mail) Thousands of Shiites were killed after their failed mutiny in 1991. They had seized almost all of southern Iraq, hoping for support from the U.S. troops that had chased the Iraqi military out of Kuwait, but the Americans refused to intervene and the rebels were destroyed with relentless cruelty by the Iraqi Republican Guard. According to Iraqi exiles, many Shiites are eagerly awaiting a chance to revolt again.

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