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Wednesday, November 8, 11:16 a.m.: Officers placed Benigno Ramos, 49, of Cambridge MA, who had turned himself in to HUPD headquarters on a warrant, under arrest...
Harith al-Dari is a wanted man - and the warrant for his arrest is the best thing that could have happened to him. By issuing the warrant Thursday, the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has turned the dimunitive Iraqi cleric into a Sunni hero and a symbol of his community's angst and anger...
...have accused the Shi'ite prime minister of deliberately stoking sectarian tensions by singling out a 65-year-old Sunni cleric for arrest when tens of thousands of murderous Shi'ite militias and their leaders enjoy the protection of the government. They have also pointed out that a 2004 warrant for the arrest of radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr was never executed, even through he lives in plain sight in Najaf...
...practical terms, the arrest warrant is unlikely to threaten al-Dari's freedom: He spends much of his time shuttling from Amman, Jordan, to other Sunni Arab capitals, none of which are about to seize him and hand him over to the Iraqis. In political terms, the warrant gives the cleric a gilt-edged opportunity to stage a dramatic comeback after a long spell in limbo...
...warrant against al-Dari has returned him to the front and center of Sunni politics, earning him sympathy and support even from those who have long disagreed with his political views. Most of the prominent Sunni politicians in the government - people al-Dari scorns for having collaborated with the U.S. - have denounced the warrant as an affront to the community. The two Sunni blocs in parliament have demanded the warrant be withdrawn. Adnan al-Duleimi, who leads the larger of the two groupings, has called for a formal government apology to al-Dari...