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July 6, 2010

Thousands Attend Funeral of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah
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Thousands of people are in Beirut today attending the funeral of
Lebanon’s most eminent Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein
Fadlallah. He died on Sunday at the age of 74. In the 1950s he helped
found the Dawa Party, the party of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
He later served as spiritual mentor to Hezbollah.



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