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IraqSlogger: Arraf Reports: Dances with Sheikhs

Al-Huwaider, Iraq – The sheikh’s long elegant fingers moved liked birds as he spoke with the American commander from Texas. In the modest office of the representative of the most revered Shiite cleric in Iraq, religious authority met military power – and agreed on one thing. “The enemy didn’t come from outer space or the moon. He is between us, from here,” Sheikh Ahmed Hamid al-Tamimi told Colonel David Sutherland. Tamimi, the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s representative in Diya

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