Word: cleric
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...everyday chats in mosques and youth clubs. "That atrocity broke our hearts," says Mohammed Kozbar, spokesman for the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. "I've been shocked and surprised by the news that these young people are British Muslims." Until early 2003, the radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam at Finsbury Park, reeling in enthusiastic young followers with his fiery sermons. Now Abu Hamza is awaiting trial on charges that include stirring racial hatred, and a gentler brand of Islam is drawing people back to the mosque. "We have a responsibility...
...line triumph in Iran is already causing deep anxiety in neighboring Iraq, which is riven by Sunni and Shi'a factionalism. Now some Iraqis worry that whatever remains of their fragile détente may be shattered by pro-Shi'a Iranian interventionism. Says Isam al-Rawi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Baghdad: "Ahmadinejad is a man with narrow religious views, and he wants to export these." But Iraq's Shi'a establishment, which has deep ties to Iran, is nonplussed. "Ahmadinejad is a young man, a new player," says Rada Jawad Taqi, a Shi'a member of Iraq's interim...
...even the closest allies, it seems, always work together. Italian prosecutors have issued warrants for the arrest of 13 alleged American c.i.a. operatives suspected of abducting Osama Mustafa Hassan, an Islamic cleric in Milan, in order to take him to Egypt. Prosecutors allege that the 2003 operation was an "extraordinary rendition," in which terror suspects are seized and sent to other countries for interrogation and, in some cases, according to former captives, torture. At the time of his abduction, Hassan was under investigation by Italian authorities for alleged links to al-Qaeda. The Italians say they have photocopies...
...trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics is subject to right and wrong, subject to good and evil...
Does he know shorthand? As a cleric urged worshippers at Tehran University last week to "make America angry," SEAN PENN jotted down notes for his real-life column in the San Francisco Chronicle. (And no, it's not a humor column.) Penn, who visited Iraq in 2003 for the Chronicle, was in Iran in advance of the country's elections this week. We invite the Oscar winner to give his all to this whole reporter thing when he returns to the U.S. We would also like to see Ted Koppel in a thriller...