Word: imam
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...blast was smaller than the explosions at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf last week and at the United Nations HQ the week before, but it was no less audacious in its choice of target. And it will likely have a greater impact than those blasts on the psyche of ordinary Iraqis. "If the police headquarters can be bombed," says Hani Humaileh Obaid, who had come to the compound for identity papers confiscated by the cops, "then no place is safe for Iraqis...
...Iraq has prompted the realization in Washington that the U.S. needs UN support even more in peacetime than it did in going to war. The ongoing security crisis in Iraq was underscored by a deadly bomb blast during Friday prayers at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer...
...have also warned the U.S. not to enter East Baghdad following street clashes last week in which at least one Sadr supporter was killed. Most troubling, from a U.S. point of view, are reports that Sadr has received political and financial support from Ahmed Kubeisi, a popular Baghdad Sunni imam who has preached forcefully against the occupation. The prospect of ecumenical unity against the U.S. and its allies among former rivals would be a significant force-multiplier for the insurgency. And, again, the Afghan model provides the political inspiration - after all, politically and ethnically diverse armies who were more than...
...Also in their in-box: an assignment from Washington's Joint Terrorism Task Force to track American Muslim cleric Anwar Aulaqi. TIME has been told by a friend of Aulaqi's that the imam abruptly moved to Yemen, his parents' birthplace, last year, as the investigation into his possible relationship with three 9/11 hijackers was heating up. But Aulaqi may be on the move. The FBI is asking British authorities for information on the 32-year-old cleric's doings if he appears in the northern English city of Bradford this month to teach, as advertised on the internet...
...Task force investigators are trying resolve whether, as last month's congressional report on 9/11 suggests, Aulaqi aided hijackers Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Midhar when they attended his mosque in San Diego. The report alleges the imam was observed holding "closed-door meetings" with the hijackers. FBI officials discount that allegation, from a single, dubious source. But both FBI and congressional investigators want to know why Al Hazmi and a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, showed up at a Falls Church, Va., mosque shortly after the imam transferred there in 2001. "In my view, he is more than...