Word: nasrawi
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Sistani's invisibility is in part cultivated, some aides and rivals say, to enhance the aura of mystery that contributes to his appeal. Says Sheik Haitham Nasrawi, a representative of al-Sadr's father: "When he sits behind closed doors, he is seen as a man who makes no mistakes." But during Saddam's reign of terror, Sistani's seclusion turned into house arrest imposed by the regime. He endured it as a "religious duty to defend the Shi'ites' sacred center," says Tawfiq al-Yassery, a secular Shi'ite politician with close ties to the ayatullah. After Saddam fell...
During the night, Baghdad was struck by the latest in a series of punishing raids, one of which damaged the headquarters of the country's ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party. AP correspondent Salah Nasrawi in Baghdad said the building was apparently vacannt at the time of the allied attack...
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