Sana, one of the volunteers working with these Syrian children says the impact on Badr was profound.

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The Karradah neighborhood is controlled by the Badr Militia, which is loyal to one of the major parties in parliament.

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Zanzibar coach Badr-el Din refused to talk to the Press after the match, claiming that his team had been robbed of victory.

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Most of Iraq's private armies will take part, including the 75, 000 Kurdish peshmerga fighters and the 15, 000 Shia militiamen from the Badr Organisation.

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And the Mehdi Army and Badr Brigades -- the principal combatants in the Basra region -- are hardly the only militias at arms in Iraq.

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Badr had arranged for us to meet a local fisherman, Abdul Salim, who was sitting with his men on a rocky beach as we drifted to shore.

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My guide, Badr, a beaming bear of a man, smiled.

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He took over as the head of SCIRI and began his ascent to power as the Badr Brigades became the bulk of the Iraqi security forces in Iraq's predominantly Shiite south.

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Badr Eldin Eldoud and Alaa Abdel Zaher were on target for a team packed with Sudanese internationals in a match where VIP enclosure tickets cost 800 million Zimbabwe dollars owing to runaway, six-digit inflation.

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Formerly known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, its leaders were sponsored by Iran during former dictator Saddam Hussein's rule -- and its Badr Corps militia fought alongside Iranian troops during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

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