Showdown as Brits hook cleric
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A STUNNING development in the case of a radical hook-handed Islamic cleric -- wanted in connection with the death of an Australian -- has set the scene for a diplomatic showdown between the US and Britain.
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Abu Hamza al-Masri, a radical Muslim  cleric wanted by the United States, is due to appear in a  British court Tuesday accused of urging the murder of  non-believers and stirring up racial hatred.
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Established Shiite parties and powerful upstarts are feuding, causing their leading cleric to try to pull them together to ensure that the Shiites clearly dominate the new government.
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British police launched their own terrorism case Thursday against a Muslim cleric already jailed in London under a US arrest warrant.
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Police arrested a radical Muslim cleric yesterday on suspicion of preparing or instigating &quot;acts of terrorism,&quot; a move that could delay US attempts to extradite the suspect for
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A battle of faiths is being waged in the ancient English city of Oxford, where some people are bitterly opposed to Muslim plans to broadcast the call to prayer over the fabled dreaming spires.
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PARIS -- A leading Palestinian Muslim cleric rushed to Yasser Arafat's bedside yesterday, reading passages from the Koran as the Palestinian leader clung to life. Government officials here and in the West Bank pressed ahead with funeral plans.
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LONDON -- British authorities charged extremist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri yesterday with possessing Al Qaeda literature and inciting the killing of Jews and other non-Muslims, delaying his possible extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on terrorism charges.
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Radical cleric Abu Hamza, already facing US terror allegations, is questioned under UK anti-terror laws.
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British police launched their own  terrorism case Thursday against a Muslim cleric already jailed  in London under a U.S. arrest warrant.
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Established Shiite parties and upstarts are feuding, and their leading cleric is trying to pull them together before the election.
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20 September 2004 -- Violence continued today in Iraq as the second Sunni cleric was targeted by attackers within 24 hours. Iraq&#39;s Association of Muslim Scholars said a cleric identified as Sheikh Mohammad
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Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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Several people were killed in fighting at a mosque run by radical clerics who have challenged the government.
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A radical Muslim cleric who is wanted by the United States may be charged soon with offenses under Britain's anti-terrorism law, a lawyer for the US government revealed.
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BEN THATCHER was last night playing down what appeared to be a running battle between him and David Beckham on Saturday - at least as far as the England captain was concerned.
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Two influential Sunni Muslim clerics were killed in Iraq, and authorities awaited word Monday on the fate of three groups of hostages, including a Briton and two Americans.