HUSSEIN BESIEGED: For the first time since Saddam became president, some 25 years ago, Shi'ite Iraqis undertook processional worship yesterday in Karbala, the site of the siege and martyrdom of the Prophet's grandson, Imam Hussein. They are there to mark not only the end of the annual 40 days of mourning for the Imam but to protest against the continued presence of Anglo-American forces in Iraq. (photo: AP)