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...than it did in going to war. The ongoing security crisis in Iraq was underscored by a deadly bomb blast during Friday prayers at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer...
...life and work, Franklin demonstrated a humane approach to individuals and ideas. Behind the facade of the powerful and worldly elder statesman lurked a streak of little-boy mischievousness, which accounted in part for Franklin's appeal to the ladies. CAROLINE HAKIM Palm Springs, Calif...
DIED. ALBERT HAKIM, 66, Iranian-born Silicon Valley businessman and financial guru behind the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s; of a heart attack; in Inchon, South Korea. Hakim masterminded the web of bank accounts used to funnel U.S. weapons and funds to Iran and Nicaraguan rebels. As part of a plea bargain, he paid a $5,000 fine and served two years of probation...
...government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the Iran-based Shiite organization the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - are calling for a national assembly toward the end of the month to elect an interim government that would serve for two years and organize democratic elections. But given its central role...
...Revealing some of the schisms even among supposedly Iranian-influenced Iraqi Shiites, Muqtada is disparaging of SCIRI's Hakim. "The followers of Sadr don't like Hakim because he betrayed the people of Basra and the south when he urged them to fight (in the 1991 anti-Saddam intifada), and didn't come in to help them, causing the intifada to fail...