Kerbala is a Shiite holy city, and Iraqi Shiite groups in the region have a history of opposition to Saddam, who is a Sunni.
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Over the past year, Hussein has donated precious metals for extensive renovations of shrines in Kerbala, one of the region's holiest cities.
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Ties improved in 1997 after Iraq allowed Iranian pilgrims to visit Najaf and Kerbala _ the sites of two of the holiest shrines in Shiite Islam.
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Offices of the Baath Party in Baghdad, Basra, Amara, Diwanya and Kerbala were also bombed, the Communist Party said, without giving details.
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Official media said an assailant threw two grenades at Ibrahim as he got out of his car in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala in southern Iraq.
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In desperation the regime used loyal Republican Guard units armed with heavy tanks _ in Kerbala they used British-made Chieftain tanks captured in Kuwait _ to counterattack.
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In Kerbala, Hussein was said to have personally donated more than 80 pounds of gold and silver to decorate one of the two holiest shrines in the city.
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Taeb joined the Imam Hossein College . " He lost a brother in the Kerbala V operation during the Iran-Iraq War and is married with three children.
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But a comparison of the location of cancer victims to air raids, right across Iraq from Basra and Kerbala to Baghdad, are too exact to leave much doubt.
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Offices of the Baath Party in Baghdad, Basra, Amara, Diwanya and Kerbala were also bombed, the Communist Party said, without giving details . sn-as
