Anti-U.S. cleric's aides deny he fled
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The mystery over the whereabouts of Muqtada al-Sadr deepened Wednesday with the U.S. military spokesman saying the Shiite militia leader had fled to Iran, his supporters insisting he was still in Iraq &#151; and no sign of the anti-American cleric himself.
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A radical Muslim cleric wanted in the United States on terrorism charges is no longer being questioned on suspicion of terrorism offenses in Britain, police said Wednesday.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  may have escaped the U.S.-led military siege of the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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The U.S. and the Iraqi government struggle to contain the truculent cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
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Anti-American Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has left Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad, a U.S. officials said Tuesday
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical cleric prepared to hand  control of a shrine at the heart of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq  to religious authorities on Friday, but still rejected demands  by the interim prime minister to disband his militia.
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A radical Islamic cleric suspected of  close links to al Qaeda may be deported to Jordan despite the  likelihood he would face a flawed trial there, a British court  ruled on Monday.
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Officials linked to Muqtada al-Sadr denied Wednesday that the radical Shiite cleric had fled to Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad.
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A radical cleric prepared to hand control of a shrine at the heart of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq to religious authorities on Friday, but still rejected demands by the interim prime minister to disband his militia.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric leading an insurgency in Najaf, has failed to act on promises to disarm his militia in the city, Agence France- Presse reported, citing the Interior Ministry.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced Friday after nearly four months in hiding and demanded U.S. troops leave Iraq, a development likely to complicate U.S. efforts to crack down on violence and broker political compromise in the country.
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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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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose supporters had allegedly made Fallujah their base, and a militant cleric who was one of his top aides have escaped the US-led offensive on the city, Iraq&#39;s secretary of state for national security, Qassem Daoud, has said.
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In limbo since the State Department invoked an anti-terrorism law to keep him out of the country, Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan resigned his faculty appointment at the University of Notre Dame this week.
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An Anglican priest who may have received a cryptic warning of the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow has fled Iraq after threats against his life, an associate said Wednesday.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained a leading member of the Muslim Clerics' Association on Friday in what the influential Sunni group described as a campaign against opponents of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry denied Sunday that radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was in Iran, calling statements by U.S. and Iraqi officials saying he had traveled to Iran "psychological warfare."