Pakistani rebel cleric urges Islamic revolution
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A rebel cleric said he and his fighters hoped their deaths would spark an Islamic revolution in Pakistan, as commandos blew holes in the walls of their besieged mosque compound to help women and children inside escape.
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A Pakistani cleric holed up in a mosque in Islamabad said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, raising hopes of an end to a confrontation in which 19 people have died.
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Rebel Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr reportedly calls on his armed supporters across Iraq to observe a ceasefire.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against U.S. and Iraqi forces and is considering joining the political process, an al-Sadr aide said Monday...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called on radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 4 -- The cleric at the heart of a months-long standoff between the Pakistani government and a radical mosque here was arrested Wednesday as he attempted to flee the mosque disguised in a burqa, government officials said.
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Iraq's top Shiite cleric called Saturday for Muslim unity and an end to sectarian conflict, his first public statement in months on the worsening security crisis.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday ordered his followers to end clashes with US andIraqi forces across Iraq, one of his aides said.
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A radical cleric says his followers will not surrender as tensions mount at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque.
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A leader of an alliance of Pakistani religious parties condemned on Friday an army assault on a radical mosque, which he described as the darkest chapter in the country's history, and called for protests.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to end their uprising against U.S. and Iraqi forces while he considers forming a political movement, senior al-Sadr officials said Monday...
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A radical cleric captured by security forces while fleeing in a womanâs burqa said that the nearly 1,000 followers still inside his government-besieged mosque in Pakistanâs capital should escape or surrender.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called today for his followers across Iraq to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces, an al-Sadr aide said.
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Osama Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urges attacks on Pakistan to avenge the Red Mosque siege.
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August 31, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has told his militia to end attacks on US and Iraqi government forces, aides said yesterday.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Followers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Friday they were preparing to hand control of the revered Imam Ali Shrine to top Shiite religious authorities in a bid to end a two-week-old uprising in the holy city of Najaf.    Al-Sadr aide Ahmed al-Shaibany said he was on his way to the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, to offer to present officials there with keys to the shrine...