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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 28 > Pilgrimage could disrupt Iraq elections

Pilgrimage could disrupt Iraq elections

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....

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