BBC: Coalition faces "disappointed" Shia

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Coalition faces "disappointed" Shia

Last year the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most powerful Shia religious leader, is reported to have advised his people to adopt the following approach to the new American rulers. Thank them for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, but end every conversation with a question: when will you leave?

That statement sums up the ambivalent attitude of Iraq's Shia Muslims to the US-led occupation.

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[damnraddem]

1. Oh, it doesn't sum it up so much any more.

Now, it's more like: 'you'd better leave soon; you've outstayed your welcome.'