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Article: Najaf calls for FBI help in bomb investigation, hundreds of thousands of mourners march from Baghdad
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- August 31, 2003
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NAJAF, Iraq _ The provincial governor called for FBI help Sunday to
investigate the bombing at Iraq's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine and
police say the device that killed 125 people was the equivalent of
750 kilograms (1,650 pounds) of TNT.
More than 300,000 Shiites marched toward Najaf from Baghdad behind
a truck carrying a symbolic coffin representing their beloved Ayatollah
Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim _ killed in the enormous blast as Friday prayers
ended at the Iman Ali shrine. A three-day period of mourning began
early Sunday with services at the al-Kadhimiya shrine in Baghdad.
At the halfway point, the second holiest Shiite city of Karbala, three
thousand mourners had ...