Article: Shi'ite revival roiling Mideast.(PAGE ONE)

Byline: David R. Sands, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The world's Shi'ite Muslims, traditionally second-class citizens in the Islamic world, may be having their day.

The strong performance by fighters of Lebanon's radical Shi'ite Hezbollah movement in the five-week war with Israel is just the latest sign of a resurgence for the branch of Islam that has long been dominated militarily and economically by the more numerous Sunni Muslims.

But the Shi'ite revival also poses major problems for the Bush administration and for Sunni Arab-dominated regimes such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, while presenting a strategic opportunity for the world's most-populous ...

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