A Shia organisation in Delhi claims to have registered more than 1 lakh youths to travel to Iraq to protect Shia shrines "by all means legal, just and moral'.

The volunteers -- including builders, businessmen, and executives with banks and telecom companies -- speak passionately about 'thousands' being killed in Iraq where a Sunni insurgency is raging, but appear mostly unclear about who is responsible for the "mass murders". Read