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| | Bulletins 222 |
 | | Tears and cries of vengeance were mingles at Najaf on 2 September, where over 100,000 people attended the funerals of the Shiite religious leader Mohamed Bakr al-Hakim, victim of a car-bomb attack at the gates of the Holy city’s mosque. |
 | | This is the second bomb attack in a week against a representative of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a body supported by the Iranian Shiites and which has chosen to cooperate with the American forces in Iraq. |
 | | The SCIRI has elected the movement’s N°2, Abdel Aziz Hakim to succeed his brother, the Ayatollah Mohamed Bakr Hakim, as head of the organisation, it indicated on 3 September. |
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