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Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrate the end of Ashura at the Kademiya Shrine on the outskirts of Baghdad on April 11, 2003. This is the first time since Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq that they can openly participate in such celebration. Shiites make up about 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people.
Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrate the end of Ashura at the Kademiya Shrine on the outskirts of Baghdad on April 11, 2003. This is the first time since Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq that they can openly participate in such celebration. Shiites make up about 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people.

AP/Wide World Photo/Jerome Delay

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