Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim is one of three top Shiite leaders threatened with death by a rival Shiite cleric shortly after Saddam was toppled April 9. Also, a day after Saddam's ouster, a mob in Najaf hacked to death a Shiite cleric who had just returned from exile.
Abdul Majid al-Khoei was killed when a meeting called to reconcile rival Shiite groups erupted into a melee -- also at the Imam Ali mosque, a place of Shiite pilgrimage for centuries.
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