"I was teaching in class one day, men came and took me right to the war," says an Iraqi Shiite sibha maker who was afraid to give his name in Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, July 23, 2003."I was a prisoner for 10 years in Iran and when I came back I found nothing." The man and his partner taught theatre and art in secondary school and have not worked in their profession since 1998. Each month they make nearly 500 sibha and earn about 40,000 Iraqi dinar, or, about $26.67 U.S. dollars...Models of self-determination, Shiite controlled areas like Karbala are safer and starting to thrive more than under Saddam Hussein's regime. As the Shiite spiritual leader Ayottallah Ali Sistani has told his people to have patience with America, their patience is wearing thin with what they perceive as an occupation.
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