The results from last Saturday's elections show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition won a strong victory over Shi'ite religious parties.

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The president would have to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the Parliament speaker a Shi'ite.

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A minibus carrying Shi'ite pilgrims was also targeted in Sadr City about an hour later, wounding a handful of people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

Occasionally a fellow Costco-ite would sit down at the piano and pretend to play a tune.

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Obama's advisers assert that such a deal is possible because as far as they are concerned, the Shi'ite Iranians oppose Sunni jihadists just as much as the US does.

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Israel's interception of the Francop came a week after Yemeni forces seized an Iranian ship transporting armor-piercing weapons to Houthi Shi'ite rebels in northern Yemen.

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