Word: clerical
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...throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. "They got Saddam!" "The devil is gone." It was like a wedding day, or perhaps more a birthday. "We will be friends with the Americans because of this," said a delighted Syed Hassan al Naji, the Baghdad commander of gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr's militia, the Army of Mehdi. In his white turban and long robes, Al-Naji beamed with pleasure in his neighbor's house in Sadr City as the news came out over the Arabic news channels. "This is a great...
...throwing candy, lighting firecrackers in the street. ?They got Saddam!? ?The devil is gone.? It was like a wedding day, or perhaps more a birthday. ?We will be friends with the Americans because of this,? said a delighted Syed Hassan al Naji, the Baghdad commander of gadfly cleric Moqtada Sadr?s militia, the Army of Mehdi. In his white turban and long robes, Al-Naji beamed with pleasure in his neighbor?s house in Sadr City as the news came out over the Arabic news channels. ?This is a great...
...that the U.S. military uses to house suspected terrorists? It seemed to be a possibility when U.S. officials leveled charges this fall against a Muslim Army chaplain and two base interpreters. But the notion that U.S. personnel were working for the enemy took a knock last week when the cleric, Captain James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated...
...cause mayhem and take life in this city." In Britain, a 24-year-old man, accused of conspiring with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, was formally charged last week. At the time of his arrest, the man - whom neighbors described as a quiet student working to become an Islamic cleric - was in possession of a small amount of explosives. He is charged with "unlawfully and maliciously" conspiring with Reid "and others unknown to cause ... an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom or elsewhere." The charges cover the period...
...says his group has compiled a hit list of "hundreds" of individuals from documents looted from mukhabarat buildings after the regime fell and from former security officials who have fingered their colleagues. The vigilante cell was born of the teachings of Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, a popular Shi'ite cleric who, before he was executed by the regime in 1999, according to Aws and Jasim, issued a fatwa ordering that Saddam's murderous henchmen be killed. Al-Sadr's son Muqtada, an outspoken young Shi'ite cleric, has incited violence against U.S. forces in Iraq. Former regime officials believe some...