Radical Shia cleric 'is in Iran'
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An adviser to the Iraqi PM says radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is in Iran, but says he will be back soon.
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Representatives of Iraq's interim government have visited Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in London where he is recovering after medical treatment, a statement said.
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An Iranian-based cleric who had been the former spiritual guide of radical anti-U.S. Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has distanced himself from his former pupil's actions, his Web site said Sunday.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric unexpectedly returned to Iraq from Britain on Wednesday armed with a new peace initiative and a call for Iraqis across the country to march on the holy city to demand an end to weeks of fighting in Najaf.    But a mortar attack on the main mosque in the nearby city of Kufa killed 25 people and wounded 60 others Thursday, hospital officials and witnesses said, a blow to hopes that the crisis could be resolved peacefully...
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq and is in Iran, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, after the cleric's aides denied earlier reports he had departed to avoid an offensive against militants.
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British authorities re-arrested a radical Muslim cleric already facing extradition to the United States on terrorist charges. Abu Hamza al-Masri, the 47-year-old former imam
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Leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Ali Sistani, has left a London hospital where he has been receiving treatment for a heart condition, his spokesman said.
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A senior Shia leader living in Iran criticises radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, calling his anti-US rebellion wrong.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has arrived in Najaf in a bid to end to weeks of fighting between Shi&#39;ite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is reported to have prepared a peace plan to try to end the violence in the city of Najaf.
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British police Thursday arrested radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri under the Terrorism Actat a prison in southeast London where the cleric was already jailed under a US extradition warrant.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric was due to travel to Najaf on Thursday after making a surprise return to the country to try to end bitter fighting creeping ever closer to the city's holiest shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's most revered cleric arrived  in Najaf Thursday to try to end a bloody three-week uprising  but attacks on crowds of Shi'ites that killed at least 74  inflamed tensions as tens of thousands converged on the city.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq&#39;s radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused to meet a delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders in the holy city of Najaf, CNN reported.
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A top cleric from Israel's Islamic Movement has been arrested on charges of assault and public disorder over last week's riots at Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
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Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr pledges to work with Sunni groups against the US-led occupation.
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The radical Shi'ite cleric has ordered his militia to stand down for six months. But the move may be more about image repair than a real change in direction