Word: cleric
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...CONVICTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, by a five-judge panel, in Jakarta. Abubakar was, at the same time, cleared of terror charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charges of directing the Bali attack. Sen-tenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months...
CONVICTED. ABU BAKAR BASHIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terrorism group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 attacks in a Bali nightclub that killed 202; by a five-judge panel in Jakarta. At the same time, Bashir was cleared of terrorism charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charge of directing the Bali attacks. Sentenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months he had already...
...supporters are pushing for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal - as are some of the Sunni groups to which he is reaching out. Jaafari has previously been sharply critical of U.S. military actions in Iraq, particularly during last August's confrontation in Najaf with followers of rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr. He has also spoken of drawing representatives of the Sadr movement into government - even Chalabi is making a promise to drop murder charges against Sadr part of his campaign pitch for the job of Prime Minister...
...immediately under suspicion - Farhard was rejected there, too, and says the refugee review tribunal member hearing his case accused him of lying. What followed was a long legal fight over the tribunal's decision not to accept a letter he had received after his hearing from a senior Iranian cleric who supported Farhad's claim that he'd been a dissident. When Farhad was first put into detention, he thought it would be "two or three months and then I could be released to be a good community member for Australia." It would be four and a half years before...
...CONVICTED. LYNNE STEWART, 65, veteran civil rights lawyer and defender of accused terrorists and Mob turncoats, of providing material support to terrorists, perjury and defrauding the U.S. govern-ment; in New York City. For more than 10 years, Stewart was defense counsel for Egyp-tian cleric and convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. Prosecutors argued that Stewart acted as a conduit through which Sheik Rahman communicated with his followers. Stewart claimed the gov-ernment's videotaping of her conversations with her client violated attorney-client privilege...