Many Bodies Found In Basment Of Sadr&#39;s Religious Court: Iraqi ...
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NAJAF, Iraq, Aug 27  - Iraqi police said Friday they found &quot;many&quot; bodies of dead civilians and police, including some who were executed and mutilated, at a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister warned yesterday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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TONY JONES: Well, back to our top story and the Grand Ayatollah of Iraq&#39;s majority Shiite population has made a dramatic arrival in the besieged holy city of Najaf in a long convoy of vehicles.
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Snipers fired on a major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring 230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police.
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BAGHDAD, 21 December 2004 - Iraqâs Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warned yesterday that insurgents were trying to foment a sectarian war in the country, as thousands of mourners attended funerals in the Shiite cities of Najaf and Kerbala a day
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The coffins were turned in the direction of Mecca, the Muslim holy city, and a Shiite cleric recited the prayer for the dead before the 31 plywood caskets were lowered Saturday into a new mass grave.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fifty people suspected of  involvement in Iraq's insurgency have been detained in Najaf  following Sunday's suicide car bombing in which the death toll  has risen to 52 killed and over 140 wounded, the governor said.
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Thousands of people prepared for funerals Monday after deadly attacks in two of Shiite Islam&#39;s holiest cities in Iraq. More than 60 people wee killed in the attacks on Sunday.
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The bodies of 18 Iraqi Shi'ite men killed last month on their way to work at a U.S. base in Mosul have been found in farmland near the northern city, police sources said on Thursday.
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Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza appeared in court today charged with a string of offences including soliciting the murder of Jews and other non-believers, stirring
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NAJAF, Iraq : Iraq&#39;s top Shiite Muslim clerics, back in control of Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali shrine after a four-month militia occupation, met amid the ruins of the city as life spluttered back to normality.
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Iraqi police found 47 bodies around the   capital Baghdad in the past 24 hours, most of whom appeared to   have been the victims of sectarian violence, police said on   Saturday.
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Ten bodies with signs of torture were found Friday, apparently victims of the sectarian death squads roaming in and around Iraq's capital, while four people died in scattered attacks &#151; including a relative of the judge presiding at Saddam Hussein's trial.
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Explosions near the main mosque in the  Iraqi town of Kufa killed and wounded many people on Thursday,  a Shi'ite cleric at the scene told Reuters.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a slain Pakistani radical cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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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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Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, have arrested a hardline Sunni cleric and about two dozen others after a raid of his Baghdad mosque uncovered weapons caches along with photographs of recent attacks on American troops, the U.S. military and the Iraqi National Guard said.