Profile: Sistani, crucial person in postwar Iraq
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq&#39;s top Shiite Muslim cleric, rarely speaks in public but wields leverage in shaping the future of postwar Iraq.
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L&#39;ayatollah sciita Sistani Ã¨ giunto in cittÃ . Il premier Allawi ha promesso l&#39;amnistia per i miliziani asserragliati nel Mausoleo che si arrenderanno. NAJAF, 26 ago - Ã giunto a Najaf l&#39;ayatollah Sistani
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Ieri un rappresentante di Ali Al-Sistani , leader religioso degli Sciiti iracheni ha affermato a Najaf che il leader della fazione antiamericana degli Sciiti Sadr ha consegnato ufficialmente a Sistani il controllo della Moschea Ali, luogo sacro della
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In Iraq, a birth worth blogging about.
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Key political players in Iraq's election:
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani met the country's Sunni vice president on Thursday for the first time to discuss a new initiative aimed at uniting feuding politicians.
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BAGHDAD-- A family doctor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, emerged yesterday as the most likely candidate to become Iraq's first democratically elected prime minister. He said ending the nation's rampant violence is his top priority and that US troops would remain as long as they are needed to achieve that goal.
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Ayatollah Ali-al Sistani, who halted the three weeks of fighting in Najaf, is the most popular public figure in Iraq, says a poll which shows a deep undercurrent of respect for
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, will present a three-point plan to end fighting in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf when he arrives there today, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Iraq&#39;s most influential Shia cleric, Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, is in the southern city of Basra and will head to Najaf soon to try to resolve the crisis there, an aide says.
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The leader of Iraq's biggest Shiite militia movement has quietly resumed seminary studies toward attaining the title of ayatollah Â a goal that could make firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army an even more formidable power broker in Iraq.
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Muqtada al-Sadr's decision to withdraw from the Shiite bloc is the most dramatic sign of the transformation in Iraqi politics. Old alliances are fraying, new ones are forming.
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Ahmad Chalabi is an ambitious man who doesn't give up without a fight. The longtime Iraqi exile who always wanted to be prime minister was once also Washington's choice for the job, before it accused him of cozying up to Iran.
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Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most  influential Shi'ite cleric, was discharged from a London  hospital on Thursday after heart surgery, but will stay in  Britain for the time-being, his spokesman said.
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In a Jan. 24 glance on key figures in Iraq, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, helped negotiate a 1970 autonomy agreement and survived two assassination attempts. Instead, the information refers to Barzani's father, Mustafa, the party's previous leader.
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Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003