Shi'ite cleric ceasefire verdict due by Saturday
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will announce by midnight on Saturday whether his feared Mehdi Army is to extend a six-month ceasefire, an aide said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 -- Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told his followers Thursday that he would rescind his order "freezing" the operations of his powerful militia if military raids on his offices did not cease in the next few days, according to officials of Sadr's organization.
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Aides to the country&#39;s most powerful Shiite leader said they had reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to end the three-week siege in this holy
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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri will stand trial beginning July 4 on charges including soliciting the murder of Jews and other non-Muslims, a judge decided Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD: Shia leader Moqtada Al Sadr on Monday ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstream, his aides said.
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The Iraqi government will give Shi'ite  militiamen five days to hand in weapons under a weekend peace  agreement, National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said on  Sunday.
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Only a small number of followers of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr handed over their weapons today at the start of a ceasefire aimed at ending weeks of fighting between US troops and insurgents in the Baghdad&#39;s impoverished Sadr City neighbourhood.
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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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A five-point ceasefire proposal accepted on Thursday by the interim Iraqi Government and Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is expected to put a hold on the three-week-old battle between rebels and US-Iraqi forces in the holy city of Najaf.
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US forces and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia battled Saturday in Baghdad even as the truce that ended the bloody fighting between US-Iraqi troops and the militia forces in Najaf held for a second day.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Iraqi cleric leading a  Shi'ite uprising agreed Wednesday to disarm his militia and  leave one of the country's holiest Islamic shrines, but only  after a truce with encircling U.S. Marines.
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Cairo&#39;s high state security court will give its verdict on August 20 in a case in which 14 militants are alleged to have carried out attacks which killed three tourists, a court official said on Sunday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has agreed to disarm his Iraqi militia and leave a holy shrine but only after a truce with encircling US marines.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A radical Shi'ite cleric and Iraq's  interim prime minister made gestures on Friday to defuse a  two-week uprising in Najaf, after ferocious U.S. air strikes  and heavy fighting killed at least 77 people.
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Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri loses his appeal against  convictions for incitement to murder and race-hate crimes.
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Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a suspension of his Mehdi Army militia for up to six months for restructuring, a senior aide said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD : Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr ordered a nationwide ceasefire and announced his militant movement would join the political mainstream after months of violent rebellion, one of his aides said.