NAJAF Iraq (Reuters) - Responding to an appeal from Shi'ite clerics, Salah al-Wa'ili signed up earlier this month with a militia near Baghdad fighting the Islamist insurgents who have swept through northern Iraq and threatened the capital.
A week later the 27-year-old part-time fighter was dead.
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