Mousa Sadr Set to Make a Comeback
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Twenty-seven years after his mysterious disappearance in Libya, Imam Mousa Sadr is making a comeback to haunt relations between Beirut and Tripoli.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, seen by many as crucial to ending the Najaf crisis, is back in Iraq from the UK.
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Moqtada Sadr has clear political ambitions. But how good is his poker game?
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq
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KUFA, Iraq -- Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr resurfaced yesterday after months in hiding and delivered a fiery sermon in this Shi'ite Muslim holy city in which he reiterated his demand for the immediate departure of US forces and called for unity among Iraqis.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to Najaf at the head of a massive convoy Thursday hoping to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city, but hours earlier a mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to join his march, killing 27 people and wounding 63.    Along with the mortar attack, another group of thousands of marchers heading into Najaf from its sister-city Kufa came under fire from an Iraqi National Guard base...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to Najaf at the head of a massive convoy Thursday hoping to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city. But hours earlier, a mortar barrage hit a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to join his march, killing 27 people and wounding 63...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric returned to the country from Britain on Wednesday and his aides called for a nationwide march to Najaf to end nearly three weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in this holy city...
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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The political bloc of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Tuesday it had resumed participation in Iraq's parliament, suspended last month in protest over an attack on a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani returned after surgery, raising hopes that the rebellion led by Moktada al-Sadr would be resolved.
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The surprise return to Iraq of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country&#39;s most powerful religious leader, may help him win back support eroded by a radical Shi&#39;ite uprising.
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Spokesman for radical cleric says Sadr is making plans to join Iraq&#39;s nascent political process, and those plans will become known in coming days.
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BAGHDAD -- The fight with renegade Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is not over and the US military must retake his stronghold in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a top US commander said yesterday.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly 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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The country&#39;s most revered Shiite cleric returned to Iraq today after surgery in Britain, raising hopes that the rebellion here against the American
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;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&#39;s holiest shrine.