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Col. Dana J.H. Pittard, the commander of the force, said his troops were aware that a "single shot in Najaf" by U.S. soldiers could outrage Iraq’s powerful Shiite majority. "Look at this as the Shiite Vatican," Pittard said before the deployment.
"I once went to an easter service at the church frequented by my girl's family -- or at least the ones in CA. They showed a movie. And there was rock music. It pretty much confirmed everything I'd ever been led to believe about Protestants."--jholloway, in
princeofcairo's LJ.