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A few days later, Cockburn was in Karbala, one of the Shiites' holiest cities, to observe a 15th Shaban celebration, which drew more than a million people to a plaza adjoining two of Shiite Islam ...

At the Battle of Karbala, with the odds stacked against him, Hussain found an unlikely ally. Rahab Siddha Datt, a Brahmin warrior from the furthest Hindu settlement in north-west India ...