- “...during the Iraqi insurrection against the British in the 1920s, Gertrude
Bell observed that [...] the Shi’ites anticipated a theocratic state under
Sharia law...”. Ian Beckett, “Victory, Counter-Insurgency and Iraq”, in
Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds.), Understanding Victory
and Defeat in Contemporary War, London, 2008, p.85. ↵
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