Pakistan mosque cleric defiant despite brother&#39;s arrest
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A radical cleric besieged at a mosque in the Pakistani capital refused to surrender to the government Thursday, a day after his brother was arrested while trying to sneak away disguised in a burqa.
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NAJAF: Radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has urged his Mehdi Army followers to keep fighting the US-led forces attacking Najaf, but said he was willing to hand over the city shrine to religious leaders.
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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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The death sentence fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago is still valid and will remain so, a leading cleric said on Friday following Britain&#39;s knighting of the controversial author.
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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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KARBALA, Iraq -- Posted at the door of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's office recently, a flier denounced the arrest of his followers. Up and down the barricaded street, soldiers and policemen loyal to his Shiite rivals stood sentry, some in tan armored personnel carriers, questioning anyone they...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday, raising fears that a resolution to the crisis in the holy city could collapse amid bickering between Shiite leaders.    An unofficial mediator pleaded with al-Sadr to disarm his militants, pull them out of the shrine and disband his militia immediately." We are in a race with time," said Hussein al-Sadr, a distant relative of the cleric...
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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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Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric, still retained control of a Najaf shrine, though there were signs his grip might be weakening.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  of Najaf, but the whereabouts of their leader, the fiery cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD : Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militiamen remained in control of their Najaf mosque stronghold, as fears grew that an Italian journalist missing in Iraq since Thursday was kidnapped.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to rebel cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of Najaf's Imam Ali  mosque on Saturday, defying efforts by Iraq's U.S.-backed  government to end a radical Shi'ite rebellion.
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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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A cleric holed up in a Pakistani mosque said on Friday he and his followers would choose "martyrdom" rather than arrest, hours after the government spurned his request for safe passage.
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NAJAF, Iraq : Militiamen loyal to Moqtada Sadr were still holding Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali mosque Sunday, as smouldering violence and differences between Shiite leaders threatened to scupper efforts to end a weeks-long stand-off.
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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By Abdul Hussein Al-Obeidi, Associated Press, 8/21/2004 14:03. NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday