The identities of those who organized the bombings that killed more than 200 people in Karbala and Baghdad on Mar. 2 may be obscure, but their motives are clear. Iraq's Shiites, downtrodden for decades despite forming two-thirds of the population, are on the verge of gaining power thanks to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The bombers want to frighten the Shiites into dialing back their political aspirations, and they want to plunge Iraq into the chaos of a sectarian civil war.
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