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January 25, 2012

"Americans have left the country; why are they now targeting us?"

- SALAH HAIDERan Iraqi wounded in explosions that ripped through Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday
December 07, 2011

"This resistance in Lebanon will survive, and you will not be able to defeat it through your psychological, media, political and intelligence wars."

- HASSAN NASRALLAHthe leader of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, in a rare public appearance on Tuesday in Beirut.
August 22, 2008

" The state cannot accept the Awakening. Their days are numbered. "

- SHEIK JALALADEEN AL-SAGHEER,a leading Shiite member of Iraq's Parliament, on a crackdown on the Awakening movement, in which groups of U.S.-funded former Sunni insurgents organized citizen patrols to help stabilize the country

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