Up to 15, 000 American troops are reported massed around Kerbala and are moving toward the nearby Euphrates river, the last major natural obstacle standing between them and Baghdad.
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Izzat Ibrahim, Saddam's deputy on the powerful Revolutionary Command Council, was attending a religious ceremony Sunday in Kerbala, a Shiite Muslim holy city, it said.
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In 1991, the mullahs failed to respond when Saddam Hussein's army attacked two of the holiest shrines of Shiite Islam, in the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala.
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Izzat Ibrahim, Saddam's deputy on the powerful Revolutionary Command Council, was attending a religious ceremony Sunday in the city of Kerbala, a Shiite Muslim holy city, it said.
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Even in Kerbala, where vendors in markets bordering the shrines receive subsidized ceramic tiles, cement, steel, building stone, and glass, a distinct hint of unease about the government persists.
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And businesses that cater to the booming trade from millions of pilgrims to Kerbala and other Iraqi cities are benefiting from subsidies for the renovation of markets devastated in uprisings that followed the 1991 Gulf War.
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Also in the south, five were killed and 22 injured after a bomb tore through a marketplace in Nassiriyah, while a similar attack near a shrine in Kerbala killed 9 and wounded 22 others.
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Sayed Ammar has appeared on news media including TV channels such as the BBC, Ahlulbayt TV, Press TV, Al Zahra, Al Anwar, Kerbala TV, Hidayat, Wilayat, Ahlebayt and Safeer TV.
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In Karbala, 15 Iraqis were killed in overnight clashes between Shiite fighters and Polish and Bulgarian troops, and 6 Iranian pilgrims were shot dead near a Polish checkpoint between Babel and Kerbala, the Iraqi police said.
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The attack on Izzat Ibrahim, Saddam's deputy on the powerful Revolutionary Command Council, occured while he was attending a religious ceremony Sunday in the city of Kerbala, a Shiite Muslim holy city, it said.
