"I was sleeping in a village near Basra that night ... I saw the villagers grabbing their guns and preparing to rush to Najaf, hundreds of miles away. 'Sistani is under attack,' they told me. That was all they needed to know. The same thing happened all over Iraq."
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One of Sistani's advisors, reported in Andrew M. Cockburn, "U.S. Ignores This Ayatollah in Iraq at Its Own Peril" (November 16, 2003).
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