Al-Yawir slams US for army break up
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Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawir said the US-led authorities had made a big mistake by dismantling the country&#39;s armed forces and main government ministries after ousting President Saddam Hussein.
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An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and  often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious  duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S.  civilians, his office director said Thursday.
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, top lieutenant to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said that the US will be defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan and should expect more attacks.
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Louis Farrakhan, leader of US Muslim group Nation of Islam, attacks US foreign policy in his final major public speech.
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After a four-month sojourn, Moktada al- Sadr today delivered a sermon calling for U.S. forces to leave Iraq.
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An Iraqi cleric in the city of Ramadi says Americans &quot;seem to have lost their senses and have gone out of control.&quot;. Iraqi forces backed by US soldiers and Marines raided seven mosques today suspected of supporting rebels.
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A second retired British general slammed the United States over its Iraq policy, saying in a newspaper interview published Sunday that it had been "fatally flawed."
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accused of sheltering fighters led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Washington&#39;s main foe in Iraq. which involved US air strikes on targets in the city.
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The fight with renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is not over and the US military must retake his stronghold in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, a top US commander said Thursday.
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An influential cleric has lambasted US-led forces for conducting a damaging military raid that he says has harmed efforts to secure the release of two French journalists.
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Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, called on Friday for curbs on U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol units, which are mainly Sunni, saying weapons should only be in the hands of the government.
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London - Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawar said on Monday the US-led coalition authorities had made a big mistake by dismantling the country&#39;s armed forces and main government ministries after toppling Saddam Hussein from power.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a bloody two-month uprising in April that ended after a series of truces. Fighting between US forces and al-Sadr&#39;s Mahdi Army militia erupted again on Aug. 5 in Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called today for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces, an al-Sadr aide said.
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NAJAF, Iraq, August 25.âThe Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on Iraqis to go to the sacred city of Najaf to expel the US troops and save it from attacks by the occupying forces, stated Hamad Al-Jaffaf, head of his cabinet, on Al Arabiya television
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WASHINGTON : The United States pulled its punch in Iraq as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced US forces arrayed in Najaf against Shiite militants of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr were &quot;unlikely&quot; to storm the town&#39;s holy places to deal the militia ...
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The US-led authority which ran Iraq after the war wasted millions of dollars, says a former official.