Cleric Says Right to Fight U.S. Civilians in Iraq
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An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S. civilians, his office director said Thursday.
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KUFA, Iraq - Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared U.S. forces can never defeat his Mahdi militia in a defiant speech read out to 2,000 supporters during the first Friday prayers since the end of a brutal three-week standoff with American troops...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deadly showdown between U.S. troops and Iraqi militants in Najaf dominated Iraq's national conference Monday, with tribal and religious leaders deciding to send 60 delegates to the holy city to persuade a radical Shiite cleric to call off his fighters...
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BAGHDAD - Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr could end a ban on his militia's activities because of rising anger over US and Iraqi raids against his followers, an aide said yesterday amid concerns about rising violence and clashes between rival factions in the mainly Shi'ite south.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a  radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the  city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near  the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that left at least 34 people dead, including one American soldier, and 193 people injured, U.S...
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Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has reportedly called on his followers to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces. Naim Al-Kaabi, an aide to al-Sadr in Baghdad, said the cleric has &quot;called for a halting
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, will present a three-point plan to end fighting in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf when he arrives there today, Agence France-Presse reported.
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The U.S. military should not provoke the Mehdi Army militia of anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr into a return to the widespread violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war, a report said on Friday.
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U.S. officials appear to differ over whether Moqtada Sadr's mahdi Army should be allowed to protect Shi'ite communities
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, returned to the country 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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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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U.S. forces continued to battle militiamen in neighborhoods around the sacred Imam Ali shrine on Wednesday as the Iraqi defense minister warned that a "decisive battle" would commence if the Mahdi Army of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr did not surrender.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - At least six civilians were  killed and 11 U.S. troops wounded in clashes in Samarra on  Wednesday, a northern Iraqi town the U.S. military said it had  pacified following an offensive earlier this month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and injured at least 203 others, U.S...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters Thursday to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, hours after U.S. forces bombed militant positions and Iraq's prime minister made a "final call" for the cleric's militia to surrender...
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NAJAF, Iraq - With U.S. forces bombing militant positions and gunbattles raging, radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities but refused to disband his militia...