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Iraqi Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk on June 4, 2013 towards the Imam al-Kadim shrine in Baghdad for a commemoration ceremony to be held this week amid a sharp increase in violence. Pilgrims continue to converge on the seventh Imam’s shrine in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad to mark his death in 795 after being poisoned by Iraq’s ruler then, Harun al-Rashid. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI