Iraqis Describe Plot To Kill Shiite Clerics
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 -- A Shiite cult leader, who claimed to be a revered Muslim figure who vanished in the 10th century, was killed Sunday along with scores of fighters who were poised to attack a holy city in southern Iraq and assassinate the country's Shiite religious leadership, Iraqi officials said...
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi  government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his  goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said on  Monday.
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A hitherto unknown Islamist group has threatened to kill 15 captured Iraqi soldiers if authorities do not release an aide to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr within 48 hours, Arab television Al Jazeera reported Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 29 -- The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr publicly ordered his huge militia Wednesday to "freeze" operations for up to six months, but U.S. and Iraqi officials expressed skepticism of the cleric's intentions and his ability to control the fractured network of fighters who kill...
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An Iraqi Islamist group has said it tried  to assassinate Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi this week and  that four men died in the attack, Al Jazeera television said on  Saturday.
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Hamid Juma Faris Jouri al-Saeedi oversaw the planners of the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February that set off a wave of brutal sectarian violence.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the U.S...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical cleric is preparing to hand control of a shrine at the heart of a Shi&#39;ite uprising in Iraq to religious authorities, but still rejects demands by the interim prime minister to disband his militia.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  - A top aide to Iraq's rebel  Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr called on the Mehdi Army militia  Monday to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was preparing to  announce plans for a major political program.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  An Iraqi delegation delivered a peace proposal to aides of militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf on Tuesday as explosions, gunfire and a US air strike on the sprawling cemetery ...
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A previously unknown group has threatened to kill 18 captured Iraqi soldiers if authorities do not release an aide to Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr within 48 hours.
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Rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his militia to end attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces and will soon unveil plans to pursue his goals through politics rather than conflict, aides said Monday.
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Putting more U.S. soldiers in the streets of Baghdad risks a new showdown with a radical anti-American cleric who has modeled his movement after Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite Muslims are being urged not to respond with violence to two suicide bomb attacks, which have killed 62 people and wounded more than 100 overnight.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - With his militants and human  shields holed up inside one of Shi'ite Islam's most sacred  shrines, radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is playing a  shrewd waiting game before an expected American-led offensive.