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	Kufa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The tribes which came to Kufa afterward tended to be Arabs of the Yemen and the desert, such as the Azdis and Kindis; there were also increasing numbers of foreign clients of the Arabs (mawali) who immigrated from Persia when their lands were overrun.
		Kufa was also among the first centers of Qur'anic interpretation, which Kufans credited to the exegete Mujahid (until he escaped to Mecca in 702).
		In the first decades of Islam, Kufa was prominent in literacy and politics, it was founded before Uthman (whom Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri among others credited with the canonisation of the Qur'an's text), and it was opposed to the central authorities of Medina and Damascus.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Kufa.htm (1654 words)

	Kufa
		Kufa (al-Kufa in Arabic) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf.
		Kufa was established in 638 by Arab armies that were fighting the Sassanids.
		At this time, Kufa was an important learning center, and is where the kufic script of the Arabic language originated.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ku/kufa.html (274 words)

	Kufa
		Kufa is one of three religiously important cities that lies in a cluster south of Baghdad, together with Najaf and Karbala, the most important town in Shi'i Islam.
		Kufa was for a couple of centuries one of the leading centres for Muslim theology, for Arabic grammar, philology, literary criticism and literature.
		Kufa continues to support the party of Ali, now represented by his son Hassan, in their claim for the Caliphate.
	i-cias.com /e.o/kufa.htm (298 words)

	Kufa - LoveToKnow 1911
		KUFA, a Moslem city, situated on the shore of the Hindieh canal, about 4 m.
		The caliph `Ali made it his residence and the capital of his caliphate.
		After the removal of the capital to Bagdad, in the middle of the following century, Kufa lost its importance and began to fall into decay.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kufa (187 words)

	Kufa, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kufa - A car bomb exploded in a fish market in the central Iraqi Shiite city of Kufa on Saturday, killing at least 17 people just hours after the execution of...
		Baghdad, Dec 30 (Reuters) - An explosion was heard in the Shi'ite city of Kufa in southern Iraq on Saturday and ambulances and police rushed to the scene, a...
		Baghdad (Reuters) - An explosion was heard in the Shi'ite city of Kufa in southern Iraq on Saturday and ambulances and police rushed to the scene,...
	schema-root.org /region/middle_east/iraq/cities/kufa (986 words)

	EiTB24::Portada
		Police at the scene said the attacker was driving a minivan behind two buses carrying the pilgrims and detonated his explosives as they were getting off their bus near the shrine and mosque.
		Kufa and its twin city Najaf, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Baghdad, are in a relatively peaceful area of Iraq, but pilgrims travelling to holy sites have been targeted in the past.
		Attacks on houses of worship have stoked tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, especially after the February 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, an act that triggered reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques and clerics.
	www.eitb24.com /portal/eitb24/noticia/en/international-news/attack-in-iraq-car-bomb-in-kufa-kills-at-least-12-and-injures-37?itemId=D42021&cl=/eitb24/internacional&idioma=en (308 words)

	Mortar blasts at mosque kill 27 at Kufa mosque \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		KUFA, Iraq –; Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa mosque compound yesterday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march to the holy city of Najaf, killing at least 27 people and wounding at least 63.
		The mosque violence was the fourth attack in two days around Kufa; the other three killed marchers and bystanders at rallies.
		The Kufa mosque is the usual pulpit for radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia has been holed up for weeks in a Najaf shrine battling U.S. and Iraqi forces and whom al-Sistani approached yesterday with a cease-fire plan.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040827/news_1n27kufa.html (491 words)

	Massacre at Kufa Mosque
		City of 110,000 inhabitants in central Iraq, lying on the western bank of the Euphrates river, and 11 km northeast of Najaf.
		Kufa holds a typical Shi'i shrine built over the tombs of Muslim ibn Aqil and Hani ibn Arwa.
		A total of 74 people were killed and 376 wounded in a mortar attack on Kufa's mosque, and shooting on Shiite demonstrators blamed on American mercenaries.
	judicial-inc.biz /massacre_at_kufa_mosque.htm (256 words)

	Kufa Mosque, Muslim b. Aqeel shrine bombing attempt foiled \| Jafariya News Network
		KUFA, Iraq: Iraqi police found 13 bombs on Saturday that were planted near the wall of holy shrine of Muslim bin Aqeel (AS) and Kufa Mosque in Kufa, Buratha News reported quoting a Najaf official.
		Muslim bin Aqeel (AS) was cousin, brother-in-law and ambassador of Al-Imam Al-Hussein (AS) to Kufa.
		Kufa Mosque is one of four dignified mosques.
	www.jafariyanews.com /2k6_news/june/4kufamosque_bombingattempt.htm (247 words)

	Explosions rock Kufa mosque compound \| The Agonist
		KUFA, Iraq -- Explosions rocked the compound surrounding the Kufa mosque on Monday after ammunition used by fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr apparently caught fire, witnesses and Shiite militia members said.
		Nine people, including civilians and militiamen, were hospitalized in Kufa with injuries from the explosions, mostly burns, and one died, said Mohammed Abdul-Kadhim, a nurse.
		KUFA, Iraq - An explosion Monday rocked the Great Mosque in Kufa, where Shiite rebel leader Moqtada Sadr gives the sermon at the main weekly Muslim prayers, witnesses and the US military said.
	agonist.org /20060303/explosions_rock_kufa_mosque_compound (2124 words)

	Truce in Kufa breaks down; 5 Iraqis killed \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		KUFA, Iraq - American troops clashed with Shiite militants in this southern city Wednesday - six days after a truce was supposed to have taken effect.
		In Kufa, several Iraqis said they were wounded when mortar rounds struck their neighborhood.
		But U.S forces have insisted on their right to patrol Kufa - a move the Shiite militia claims is a provocation.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/24651 (321 words)

	Truce strained by fighting flare-up in Kufa \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Yesterday, for the first time since al-Sadr mounted his uprising, he did not appear at his mosque in Kufa to deliver his weekly sermon, which is typically filled with anti-American invective.
		Kimmitt said the Kufa clashes "appear to be violations" of the cease-fire agreement.
		The pact requires militiamen not from Najaf or Kufa to leave those cities, while the other militiamen simply have to hide their weapons.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040529/news_1n29kufa.html (653 words)

	Kufa During The Days Of The Pledge Of Allegiance
		So the political atmosphere in the city of (Kufa), that celebrated the appointment of the Successor for the first time in its history, was still stagnant, clouded, and mingled with much suspicious disturbance.
		They were able to communicate with the people of Kufa to provoke them to mutiny against the obligatory Successor, to violate morals, and to break the pledge of Allegiance to him, peace be on him.
		When Kufa had been divided into one-sevenths, they lived in the one seventh which was allotted to their allies who belonged to the Banu (sons of) `Abd al-Qays.
	www.najaf.org /english/book/17/7.htm (4297 words)

	Iraqi suicide bomber kills 59 in Kufa market -DAWN - Top Stories; July 19, 2006
		KUFA, July 18: A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday after luring day labourers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work.
		The blast in Kufa, near Najaf, was one of the bloodiest attacks of the year and followed a gun and grenade attack on another market on Monday that killed a similar number.
		Najaf provincial governor Assad Abu-Kalal blamed the Kufa attack on the ‘criminal Baathists and terrorists of Mahmudiya’.
	www.dawn.com /2006/07/19/top16.htm (537 words)

	The City of Kufa: Birth & Early Years
		The Nizaris are settled on the western side of Kufa, the Yemenis on the eastern side (according to lots drawn by arrows, as was customary then in chance decisions); between the two areas, is to be built a mosque, and this adjoins to the governor's palace and the treasury.
		The Persians in Kufa are not granted full citizenship as their Arab counterparts; they are called the clients ("mawali") and are not allowed to own land, and are commonly regarded as second class citizens inferior to the Arabs.
		Fourthly, Kufa is new town, with no tradition or culture of its own, and with a mixture of people of varying degrees of nomadic and settled lifestyles, cultures, nobles, immigrants, refugees and peasants, Kufa has to evolve its own cosmopolitan culture, which is difficult social development.
	www.holynajaf.net /eng/html/holy_kufa/index.html (2546 words)

	Twin Kufa Attack Kills Peaceful Marchers
		On Thursday morning, a mortar attack on the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa killed 27 people and wounded 63 others who had gathered to march to Najaf, hospital officials and witnesses said.
		Soon after, thousands of demonstrators from Kufa loyal to al-Sadr and al-Sistani marched on nearby Najaf, but came under fire from a base between the two cities housing Iraqi national guardsmen and US troops, witnesses said.
		Earlier, the gathering at the Kufa main mosque was in response to al-Sistani's call to Iraqis to head to the besieged Imam Ali shrine.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-aljazeera260804.htm (513 words)

	5 Iraqis killed as US troops battle militants in Kufa - The Boston Globe
		KUFA, Iraq -- American troops clashed with Shi'ite militants in this southern city yesterday -- six days after a truce was supposed to have taken effect.
		But US forces have insisted on their right to patrol Kufa -- a move the Shi'ite militia says is a provocation.
		In Kufa, skirmishes broke out as US tanks and Humvees rolled into the city's center, and terrified civilians fled.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/06/03/5_iraqis_killed_as_us_troops_battle_militants_in_kufa?mode=PF (595 words)

	Car bomb outside Kufa Mosque martyrs over 60 \| Jafariya News Network
		HOLY KUFA, Iraq: At least 60 people were martyred and over 150 injured in the holy city of Kufa on Tuesday when a suicide bomber pulled his minivan into a busy market, lured laborers onboard with the promise of jobs and then blew himself up.
		The explosion occurred outside holy Kufa Mosque, one of the four grand religiously distinguished mosques: Al-Haraam Mosque (Holy Makkah), Prophet (p) Mosque (Holy Medina), Al-Aqsa Mosque (Palestine) and Kufa Mosque (Iraq).
		Kufa, a twin city of Holy Najaf, is about 100 miles south of Baghdad.
	www.jafariyanews.com /2k6_news/july/18kufa_massacre.htm (304 words)

	Bloody blast targets Shiite labourers in Kufa - World - smh.com.au
		The blast, some 50-100 metres from a Shiite shrine in the southern city of Kufa, tore through the minibus after it had pulled out of the crowded market.
		Kufa is near the holy city of Najaf, 150 kilometres south of Baghdad.
		But Shiite religious and political leaders have warned that mass attacks against their community by suspected Sunni insurgents meant their calls for restraint and to avoid retaliation were being ignored.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/bloody-blast-targets-shiite-labourers-in-kufa/2006/07/18/1153166378082.html (538 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. soldiers in Kufa trade fire with al-Sadr fighters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KUFA, Iraq (AP) — U.S. soldiers and fighters loyal to a radical Shiite cleric exchanged gunfire here on Saturday, raising new fears about whether a plan to end a seven-week standoff here will hold.
		The main road leading to Kufa was blocked by tires and concrete blocks, forcing cars to take back roads into the city.
		Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy chief of operations, reported five attacks against coalition forces in Kufa on Friday and said they "would appear to be violations" of the deal.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-05-29-iraq_x.htm (865 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Fighting in Kufa Signals End of Truce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		KUFA, Iraq, June 2 -- The shaky week-old cease-fire in southern Iraq broke down completely Wednesday with heavy fighting on the streets of Kufa, where U.S. troops pursued Shiite Muslim insurgents, killed at least seven Iraqis and wounded 37 others.
		Fighters from the anti-occupation militia of rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr continue to roam the streets of Kufa, about 90 miles south of Baghdad, as well as the nearby city of Najaf instead of disappearing as promised.
		Fighting in Kufa began in the morning when U.S. troops advanced into the center of town, where Mahdi Army militiamen were in the process of taking over a police station.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10955-2004Jun2?language=printer (887 words)

	Major showdown coming in Kufa, Iraq - Club Lexus Forums
		On Monday, as American authorities issued an arrest warrant for Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who set off the most serious insurrection so far against the occupation forces, hundreds of his supporters were busy fortifying the mosque here with heavy weapons, bracing for an American invasion.
		Kufa, a sandy, palm-lined town along the banks of the Euphrates River, is a picture of what may lie ahead if Iraqi security forces are unable to quell potential insurrections.
		Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad with 110,000 residents, is the first Iraqi city to spin entirely out of occupation control.
	www.clublexus.com /forums/showthread.php?p=860161 (932 words)

	Middle East Online
		KUFA, Iraq - Two Iraqis were killed and 12 wounded Friday in clashes pitting Shiite radicals against Spanish and Salvadoran coalition troops near the central Iraqi cities of Kufa and Najaf, officials said.
		Separately, three Spanish soldiers were injured overnight in the southern town of Diwaniyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Kufa, the Spanish defence ministry said in a statement in Madrid.
		The soldiers came under attack while crossing a bridge in the town on patrol and one of them was seriously wounded when he was hit in the eye and neck, the ministry said, adding that his condition was not life threatening.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=9589 (426 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. troops battle host of militants in restless Kufa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At least six Iraqis were killed and 11 injured in the skirmishes in Kufa, Najaf's twin city and stronghold of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, militiamen hospital officials said.
		Fighting has rocked Kufa since Shiite leaders announced May 27 that al-Sadr had agreed on a formula to end the confrontation with the Americans in Najaf and Kufa, which together contain some of the most sacred shrines in Shia Islam.
		The fighting in Najaf and Kufa have raised fears of splits in the majority Shiite community, which aspires to political power in Iraq after the U.S. occupation ends June 30.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-06-03-iraq_x.htm (1164 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was not clear who mounted the attack on the Iraqis in Kufa, who included supporters of al-Sadr and of senior Shia spiritual leader Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani.
		In the past, al-Sadr has regularly used the Kufa mosque to deliver sermons at Friday prayers.
		On Wednesday, three mortar rounds, apparently targeting a police checkpoint, hit a civilian area in Kufa, killing two civilians, including an eight-year-old boy, and wounding four others, witnesses and hospital officials said.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/1EEC1BB8-CFD6-46E8-865B-D31981A7C0C9.htm (435 words)

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