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By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
January 28, 2009
BAGHDAD — The annual Shiite pilgrimage to Karbala, the burial place of one of the sect’s most important figures, has run into a scheduling conflict of a contemporary sort: Iraq’s provincial elections.
Every year, Shiite pilgrims travel hundreds of miles, sometimes....