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To: epicure who wrote (105657)	7/15/2003 9:36:14 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

Abdel Aziz al-Hakim has one of the 25 seats on the new governing council. His brother, the ayatollah, went into exile in Iran but that doesn't make him an Iranian however. This particular Shiite group is one of four main Shiite groups. The Shiites are a diverse group. The group's leader, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, is still in Iran. But his brother, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who commands the group's armed wing, has come back to Iraq to pave the way for the ayatollah's return." Iraq's largest Shiite group is led by a cleric in Iran, not one faction - the LARGEST faction- that makes the top leader of Iraq's Shi'ites an Iranian cleric, in Iran.