BACKGROUND ON AYATOLLAH SAYED MOHAMAD BAQIR AL HAKIM (Commentary and editing by James Roger Brown, Director, THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER, thesociologist@aol.com.) This week exiled Shiite Cleric Ayatollah Sayed Mohamad Baqir al Hakim announced plans to return to Iraq to assume a leadership role for Iraqi Shiites which constitute 60% of the population. Ayatollah al Hakim has been in Iran since leaving Iraq in 1980. He was welcomed in Iran by the top Muslim fundamentalists and was an active political ally. Members of the al Hakim family have been popular and powerful Clerics for several generations. A 60 Minutes interview of Ayatollah...