Bloody Battle Dulls Cleric's Heroic Image
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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has emerged from a bloody, two-week showdown with U.S. forces with his militia intact but his heroic image in question.
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One of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, the Imam al-Askari mosque in Samarra, was attacked and severely damaged again today, just over a year after the previous attack on the site unleashed a tide of national sectarian bloodletting.
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Pakistani commandos battled die-hard Islamic militants holed up in a radical mosque through the night and into the early morning Wednesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in an assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Islamic extremists.
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Reviving violence-weakened bonds between moderate clerics and followers of different faiths holds the key to crushing Asia's formidable network of extremist militants, regional leaders said.
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Political rivalries, ethnic strife and poverty have fueled the clashes, but that has not stopped combatants from invoking religion and challenging the devotion of their rivals.
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but he still condemns the offensive to capture the Sunni Muslim city from rebels. mismanagement of Iraq,&quot; said the 40-year-old cleric, missing half his jaw from the torture.
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This week's intense clashes between the Iraqi army and a Shiite militia are part of a strategy to whittle away the power of a radical cleric. But the high-risk gambit could trigger more fighting across the Shiite south &#151; at a time when the cleric's stronghold in the capital is virtually off-limits.
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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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The killing of two Sunni clerics could be part of a slide toward sectarian civil war, analysts say.
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In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.
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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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The rise of a powerful cleric exposes economic and political failures in a government-administered area. Part 1 of three.
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BAGHDAD: An influential group of clerics last night protested against a raid on a Baghdad mosque by Iraqi and US troops, which killed four civilians.
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The torrent of bullets that killed Benazir Bhutto cut short an epic life, one bathed in blood and awash with controversy.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The fate of scores of hostages was still not known late yesterday after elite Pakistani commandos fought their way room by room into a heavily fortified radical mosque , killing the chief cleric and more than 50 of his armed followers and arresting dozens more.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops is killed, officials say.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.