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Shi'ite

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Noun1.Shi'ite - a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim, Shiite, Shiite Muslim
Shia, Shiah, Shiah Islam - one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran
Moslem, Muslim - a believer in or follower of Islam
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Izzeddine, who among other things ran a publishing house based in Hizbullah's Shi'ite stronghold in a Beirut suburb, had been taken into custody as legal charges against him were handled by a court.
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Around of 72 worshippers were also wounded as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the northern city of Mosul.
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Going back to sectarian war is, as both Sunni extremists and Shi'ite victims know, the one way they could lose all that, especially if they were to drag their Sunni Arab neighbours into a messy regional conflict.
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