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Shi'a Power

Jesse Walker | 4.28.2003 5:31 AM


With functional authority in parts of Iraq devolving to traditional Shi'a clerics, are U.S. troops confronted with a nascent theocracy, a spontaneous stateless order -- or a bit of both? Discuss.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.