Word: clericalization
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...effort started to pick up in August, when British journalist John McCarthy was released. He was carrying a message from Islamic Jihad: if Israel would release more than 300 Arab detainees, including Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1989, the group would be willing to free its remaining captives. Using Picco as a go-between, the two sides began exchanging information about the condition of their prisoners...
Israel is worried that it has not completed the deal yet, but is willing to trade almost 300 Lebanese prisoners, along with kidnapped Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Hizballah cleric, for one possible Israeli survivor, air force Captain Ron Arad, and the remains of five other servicemen...
...Lebanon and Egypt, thousands of hard-line Muslims demonstrated against the Madrid talks and some in Cairo chanted "God, kill all the Jews!" A senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Musavi Ardebili, called on Arabs to overthrow their leaders for negotiating with Israel...
...cleric advised that releases should be made all at once...
Sheik Ahmed Taleb, a Shiite Muslim cleric with ties to the kidnappers, said Saturday from his home in Jibsheet, south Lebanon that a hostage, probably a Briton, would be released...