Sunday, March 11, 2007
Millions of Shiite pilgrims on the road to Karbala - International Herald Tribune
Wounds and risks fail to defer faithful
... brazenly defying, like the millions of other Shiites converging here this weekend, the threat of snipers and suicide bombers, gunmen and guerrillas.
Some had walked 10 days from Basra, in the far south; others had taken donkey carts from Najaf, the ayatollahs' power center. Old men and women were pushed along in wheelchairs. Open- back trucks brimming with black-clad Shiites rumbled down the highways, pictures of turbaned clerics on their sides.
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Militant Sunni Arabs had tried to turn this year's event into a death march, using bombs and bullets to kill at least 150 pilgrims on the roadways through the week. But it seemed that the more they tried to wipe out the Shiites, the more the Shiites were determined to come....
Wounds and risks fail to defer faithful
... brazenly defying, like the millions of other Shiites converging here this weekend, the threat of snipers and suicide bombers, gunmen and guerrillas.
Some had walked 10 days from Basra, in the far south; others had taken donkey carts from Najaf, the ayatollahs' power center. Old men and women were pushed along in wheelchairs. Open- back trucks brimming with black-clad Shiites rumbled down the highways, pictures of turbaned clerics on their sides.
...
Militant Sunni Arabs had tried to turn this year's event into a death march, using bombs and bullets to kill at least 150 pilgrims on the roadways through the week. But it seemed that the more they tried to wipe out the Shiites, the more the Shiites were determined to come....
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