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Shiite Leader Returns to Basra

Thousands of Shia Muslims throng the streets of Basra to welcome back their exiled leader. Ayatollah Mohammad baqir Hakim had spent the last 23 years in Iran. U.S. officials, intent on a secular government for Iraq, are wary of Baqir's influence. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

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