Top Shiite clerics oppose armed resistance to US-led forces in Iraq
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Shiite Islam's top clerics reaffirmed their opposition to armed resistance to the US troop presence in Iraq as life spluttered back to normal in Najaf after weeks of devastating combat, while two missing ...
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged his supporters converging on Najaf on Thursday not to enter the battered holy city until he arrived, a senior aide said.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the powerful Shiite Muslim cleric, remains adamantly opposed to a controversial plan to partition Iraq into a federation of three largely independent regions, a top Sadr aide said Monday.
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The candidate list endorsed by Iraq's top Shiite cleric is likely to emerge as the dominant political group in Sunday's election. But his followers said Monday they aren't looking to create a cleric-led Islamic state, and expectations are they won't be strong enough to govern on their own.
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The U.S. military should not provoke the Mehdi Army militia of anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr into a return to the widespread violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war, a report said on Friday.
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The radical Shi'ite cleric's sudden reemergence bodes ill for the Iraqi government and U.S. forces
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BAGHDAD -- Moqtada al-Sadr doesn't want his fighters in the Mahdi Army to let their fervor wane in the group's campaign to destroy US and Iraqi government troops with roadside bombs and nighttime ambushes.
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Tuesday: A Shiite insurgency appeared to be weakening as Iraqi forces moved to within 200 yards of the Imam Ali Shrine. Wednesday: Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric returned home with a peace initiative demanding an end to the fighting in Najaf.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.
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Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared U.S. forces can never defeat his Mahdi militia in a defiant speech read out to 2,000 supporters during the first Friday prayers since the end of a brutal three-week standoff with American troops.
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Thousands of demonstrators supporting and hundreds opposing Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Iraq on Friday as US soldiers fought insurgents in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City and near Falluja.
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Two Shiite leaders took exception with suggestions that Moktada al-Sadr had fled because of a crackdown on militias.
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Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant warns in a newly released video statement that Iraqi tribal leaders who side with U.S. troops against al Qaeda fighters will face reprisals. "They will lose both their religion and life," Ayman al-Zawahiri says.
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Thousands of Shiites on Saturday protested the U.S. detention of the son of Iraq's most powerful Shiite politician, and the country's Kurdish president deplored the "uncivilized" behavior of the American soldiers responsible.
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NAJAF, Iraq, August 28 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Iraq&#39;s top Shiite authority reaffirmed Saturday, August 28, its opposition to armed resistance against the US-led forces in Iraq after a meeting at the house of spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah
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Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army on Thursday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.
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Influential members of Muqtada al-Sadr's movement have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric not to extend a cease-fire when it expires next month, officials said Monday, a move that could jeopardize recent security gains.