IRAQ. Autonomous Region in Northern Iraq controlled by Kurdish parties. PUK controlled territory. March, 2003. Iraqi Arab Shias who are in opposition to the Saddam HUSSEIN regime and created the Badr Brigade, the military branch of the SCIRI, Supreme Council of Islamic Resistance in Iraq, under Ayatollah Muhammad BAKR AL-HAKIM, celebrate the last day of mourning the death of the founder of Shiism, ALI.