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Security forces were deployed to protect the pilgrims who in previous years have been a target of Sunni insurgents hoping to inflame sectarian tensions.
Police used concrete blocks and razor wire to close roads near the gold-domed Imam Moussa al-Kadhim mosque, which has received more than three million visitors in the past few days, according to Iraqi state television.
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