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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

1) Imam Ali Shrine/ Najaf:

Imam Ali, AlHakim, AlSadr, lords instead of God:

[9:31] They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords, instead of GOD. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god. There is no god except He. Be He glorified, high above having any partners.

God humiliates the disbelievers while giving signs for people who can see:

[3:141] GOD thus toughens those who believe and humiliates the disbelievers.

Yet, their Jinn companions make them think they are guided:

[43:37] Such companions will divert them from the path, yet make them believe that they are guided.

They afflict them with great pain and suffering, a just requital:

[22:25] Thus were the idol worshipers duped by their idols, to the extent of killing their own children. In fact, their idols inflict great pain upon them, and confuse their religion for them. Had GOD willed, they would not have done it. You shall disregard them and their fabrications.

Shi'a and Sunni "muslims", satanic religions:

[30:32] (Do not fall in idol worship,) like those who divide their religion into sects; each party rejoicing with what they have.

One sacred masjid in Quran, it belongs to God:

[5:97] GOD has appointed the Ka`bah, the Sacred Masjid, to be a sanctuary for the people, and also the Sacred Months, the offerings (to the Sacred Masjid), and the garlands marking them. You should know that GOD knows everything in the heavens and the earth, and that GOD is Omniscient.

-Ali = Najaf = 217
- AlNajaf = 285 = 19 x 15

8/2003 :

19 arrested in Iraq bombing

By Tarek Al-Issawi

Associated Press

Aug. 30. 2003

NAJAF, Iraq - Police have arrested 19 suspects - many of them foreigners and all with admitted links to al-Qaida - in the car bombing of the Imam Ali shrine in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, a senior Iraqi investigator said Saturday.<>They are all connected to al-Qaida," the official said.Wahhabism is the strict, fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam from which al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden draws spiritual direction. Based in Saudi Arabia, its followers show little tolerance for non-Wahhabi Sunnis and Shiites.

The bomb at the Imam Ali shrine - the burial place of the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad - was made from the same type of materials used in the Aug. 19 truck bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, which killed 23 people, and the Jordanian Embassy vehicle bombing Aug. 7, which killed 19, the Iraqi official said.

American authorities have not taken an active public role in the mosque investigation because of Iraqi sensitivity to any U.S. presence at the Najaf shrine, the most-sacred Shiite shrine in Iraq and the third holiest in the world after Mecca and Medina.

Hospital officials said 85 people died in the shrine bombing, including leading Shiite Muslim cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. Earlier tolls were reduced after some deaths were found to have been reported twice.

Thousands of angry mourners gathered outside the damaged Imam Ali shrine Saturday, calling for vengeance in the killing of al-Hakim, a cherished Shiite leader and Saddam Hussein opponent who only in May had returned from exile in Iran.

While backing the formation of an Islamic state in Iraq, al-Hakim had also urged unity among hostile Shiite factions and tolerance of the American-led coalition.

"Our leader al-Hakim is gone. We want the blood of the killers of al-Hakim," a crowd of 4,000 men chanted, beating their chests.

A year has passed, yet they still deviate ! :

8/2004 :

Inside the shrine, wounded return from bloody battle

Rory McCarthy at the Imam Ali mosque, Najaf

Friday August 13, 2004 "The Guardian"

For seven days the militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Iraqi Shia cleric, had been fighting the Americans on the edge of the holy city of Najaf. Yesterday, on the eighth day, the Americans finally advanced towards the narrow streets of the old city.

This uprising, the second in five months, has delivered the most serious challenge yet to the new Iraqi government. Like the US military, Baghdad wants the militia crushed. But if they blunder into the heart of the old city and attack the Imam Ali shrine - Mr Sadr's headquarters and one of the holiest sites in the Shia faith - they risk increasing the size of the rebellion exponentially.

The sweeping courtyard that encloses the golden dome of the shrine is surrounded by an exquisitely tiled wall. Along its length are a series of alcoves each housing small offices. Most are now locked or abandoned, but one, near the northern gate, is air-conditioned, thickly carpeted and decorated with dozens of posters of Moqtada al-Sadr and his revered father. Under the sofa are stuffed several assault rifles and a pair of umbrellas.

This is the office of the Sadr movement, which now controls the mosque - perhaps itself one of the goals behind the uprising since the site brings in a vast annual income from the millions of pilgrims who visit. Clerics from the other parties in the Shia faith, including the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which ran the mosque until April, have gone. Even yesterday's prayers were tailored to extol Mr Sadr.

Among the injured men was Hassan Liwis, 26, an engineering student from Nassirya, who had left his final exams to fight with Mr Sadr's militia during his uprising in April. Yesterday he was badly burned in the face and arm when a helicopter fired a rocket at him as he stood holding a rocket-propelled grenade.

"We didn't see it coming," he said. "I am fighting to defend my leader, the Imam Ali and my religion. We will do anything to stop the Americans. They have sex and drinking and other things and we don't want this." His third child, a boy, was born two months ago and he named him Moqtada, after the cleric.