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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/25/international/middleeast/25AYAT.html
U.S. Woos Iraqi Shiites
(New York Times) Michael R. Gordon - Bush administration officials have invited Ayatollah Muhammad Bakir al-Hakim, an Iraqi Shiite living in exile in Tehran, to send a representative to a Dec. 10 meeting of Iraqi opposition leaders in London. An estimated 55 percent of Iraqis are Shiites.