KERBALA: Beating their chests with their hands, the Shi'ite Muslims came in the hundreds of thousands to the holy site where Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein was beheaded.
Mostly on foot, they walked for days from as far away as Nasiriyah, Umm Qasr, Basra and Baghdad for the Festival of Hussein.
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