Word: clericalization
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...officers and undisciplined rank-and-file men. And Thabit feared that the incident would only worsen the image problem already troubling the predominantly Shi'ite national police in Samarra, an overwhelmingly Sunni city where the outsiders are widely suspected of ties to the Mahdi Army of militant Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr...
...devil. No, no for America. No, no for the occupation. No, no for Israel.' MUQTADA AL-SADR, radical Shi'ite cleric, emerging in public for the first time in months, in a fiery anti-American sermon in the holy Shi'ite city of Kufa. He called for U.S. forces to leave Iraq, but vowed to defend Sunnis and Christians...
...hasn't withdrawn support for Maliki, keeping the Prime Minister beholden to him. Yesterday, when Maliki presented six new candidates for the ministries vacated by Sadr's people, he was careful to express his gratitude toward the cleric, thanking him for giving him "the authority to choose the ministers...
...sign of anti-American Sunni extremism. As many as 200 people in Tripoli and north Lebanon were rounded up by Lebanese authorities last month and accused of ties to al-Qaeda, stockpiling weapons and planning attacks. "They were all innocent people," says Sheikh Ibrahim Salih, a prominent Salafist cleric in Tripoli. "They [the government] want to keep the Sunni street under control and to convince the Americans they are fighting terrorism...
...many as 200 people in Tripoli and north Lebanon were rounded up by Lebanese authorities last month and accused of ties to al-Qaeda, stockpiling weapons and planning attacks. "They were all innocent people," says Sheikh Ibrahim Salih, a prominent Salafist cleric in Tripoli. "They [the government] want to keep the Sunni street under control and to convince the Americans they are fighting terrorism...