BBC correspondent Hugh Sykes has been given rare access to two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines, both located in the central Iraqi city Karbala, south-west of the capital Baghdad. This is the shrine of Imam Hussein, who Shias revere as the designated successor to Prophet Mohammed's son Imam Ali - until the split that led to the two main Islamic branches, Shia and Sunni. Imam Hussein's tomb is...
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