Iraqi cleric back in public eye
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Moqtada Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shia cleric, appears in public for the first time since a US troop surge in Baghdad.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric made a sudden return to the country on Wednesday and said he had a plan to end an uprising in the &quot;burning city&quot; of Najaf, where fighting is creeping ever closer to its holiest shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has just arrived in Najaf to try to end the stand-off involving Shia fighters led by the radical cleric, Moqtada Sadr.
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Muqtada al-Sadr, a radical cleric, surfaced in Iraq Friday -- four months after his last public appearance -- and blasted the United States, Britain and Israel as an "evil trio," Reuters and an Iraq TV station reported. The U.S. military has remained keenly interested in al-Sadr's movements because he controls the powerful Mehdi Army, which has thousands of loyal anti-American followers.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric returned from Britain on Wednesday and his aides called for a nationwide march to Najaf to end nearly three weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in this holy city...
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The erosion of some of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s status showed recently when his supporters gathered outside his office here.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to this violence-wracked city on Thursday aiming to broker a peace deal to end more than three weeks of devastating fighting between US forces and Shiite militants.
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Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his ...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's most revered cleric arrived  in Najaf Thursday to try to end a bloody three-week uprising as  tensions were inflamed by attacks on Shi'ite marchers that  killed at least 74 people and wounded 315.
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Iraqis carry a portrait of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad&#39;s Shiite enclave of Sadr city Friday Dec. 10 2004 as they mark the anniversary of his father&#39;s death.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, arrived in Najaf today hours after a mortar barrage hit a mosque in Kufa, killing at least 27 people.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was in stable condition Friday following a procedure to unblock a coronary artery, his office said.
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Hoping to end weeks of fighting in Najaf, Iraq's top Shiite cleric unexpectedly returned home from Britain on Wednesday armed with a new peace initiative and a call for Iraqis across the country to march on the holy city to demand an end to the fighting.
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Guns were largely silent in Najaf today for the first time in weeks, after Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to the holy city and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia
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The top United Nations envoy for Iraq has returned to Baghdad this week and is meeting with a wide spectrum of Iraqi political leaders and actors to see how theworld body