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Article: FBI says it will help in Najaf investigation, hundreds of thousands of mourners march from Baghdad
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- August 31, 2003
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Dateline: NAJAF, Iraq
The FBI on Sunday said it would join the investigation of the devastating
car bombing in Najaf after the provincial governor called for U.S.
help to probe the explosion at Iraq's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine.
Police said 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 Imam Ali shrine. A three-day period of mourning began
early Sunday with services at the al-Kadhimiya shrine in ...