A few days ago I wrote about the borderlands between Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq. Today I'd like to write about Iraq's Shia' majority. Shia' politics is the politics of raw emotion: despair, fear, anger and hope. An friend of mine has a video stored on his cell phone of Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim, who was an important Shia' political leader until a car bomb went off and blasted him into vapor. Let's turn on my friend's phone and have a closer look at the holy cities and the urban slums of Shia' Iraq:
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