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In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 photo, Talib, the son of Iraqi sniper Ali Jayad al-Salhi, 65, a volunteer with Popular Mobilization Forces killed fighting Islamic State militants, poses with a weapon next to his father's poster in his home in Basra, Iraq. Al-Salhi, an expert sniper and veteran of multiple wars, was vaulted into legend. Shiites around Iraq trade stories of how, out of piety, he left his home, wife, 10 children and 20 grandchildren to join a Shiite militia to fight in what he saw as a war between humanity and evil. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
- Nabil al-Jurani
In this Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017 photo, people pass by a poster of Ali Jayad al-Salhi, 65, a volunteer with Popular Mobilization Forces killed fighting Islamic State militants, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. In his martyrdom, he has virtually become a new saint for Iraq’s Shiites. His poster adorns shop windows, men and women wear his image as badges. Poems praise his valor. His sniper’s rifle, with which he’s said to have killed nearly 400 Islamic State group militants, is now enshrined in a museum in the holiest Shiite city. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
- Nabil al-Jurani
In this Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 photo, a man sits among awards, certificates of appreciation and posters belonging to the sniper Ali Jayad al-Salhi, 65, a volunteer with Popular Mobilization Forces killed fighting Islamic State militants, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. In his martyrdom, he has virtually become a new saint for Iraq’s Shiites. His poster adorns shop windows, men and women wear his image as badges. Poems praise his valor. His sniper’s rifle, with which he’s said to have killed nearly 400 Islamic State group militants, is now enshrined in a museum in the holiest Shiite city. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
- Nabil al-Jurani