Day Of Ashura
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Pakistani security officials check the site of a bomb blast as the minority Muslim Shiite sect observed the annual Ashoura holiday in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Kashif Naveed)
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, speaks to the crowd in a rare public appearance during a rally to mark the Muslim holy day of Ashoura, in the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday Dec. 6, 2011. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has rarely been seen in public since his Shiite Muslim group battled Israel in a monthlong war in 2006, fearing Israeli assassination. Since then, he has communicated with his followers and gives news conference mostly via satellite link. Ashoura marks the anniversary of the death in the seventh century of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein. His death in a battle outside of the Iraqi city of Karbala sealed Islam's historical Sunni-Shiite split, which still bedevils the Middle East. Ashoura is one of the holiest days of the Muslim Shiite calendar. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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An Iranian girl and women react as they attend a religious procession to mark Ashura in Ardebil, Iran, in 2009. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
