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Top cleric urges Shi'ites not to resist allies By David R. Sands
Washington Times ^ | Friday, April 4, 2003 | By David R. Sands

Posted on 04/03/2003 11:48:26 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Iraq's leading Shi'ite Muslim cleric yesterday reversed course and urged his followers not to resist the U.S.-led effort to oust President Saddam Hussein, as U.S. forces in the central city of Najaf fought to secure a mosque sacred to the country's majority Shi'ite community.


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Friday, April 4, 2003

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1 posted on 04/03/2003 11:48:26 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
He is like a democrat though. Since releasing his fatwa didn't he come out with a "what I really meant was......"
2 posted on 04/03/2003 11:57:29 PM PST by JSteff
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To: JSteff
The US Air Force has been releasing Daisy fatwas all over the place! According to a couple of Republican Guard units, the Daisy fatwas have been quite convincing...
3 posted on 04/04/2003 12:03:03 AM PST by winner3000
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To: JohnHuang2
More than a million Shi'ites live in a huge lower-class area of Baghdad known as Saddam City.

Saddam this, Saddam that. I wonder if the only reason he didn't just re-name the whole country after himself was because, to the English-speaking world, it'd be known as "so damned".
4 posted on 04/04/2003 12:15:38 AM PST by Heatseeker
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To: JSteff
Not only that but Al JaLeera said he is denying having made that statement, is it our propoganda being broadcast for muslims benefit?
5 posted on 04/04/2003 12:58:13 AM PST by JustPiper (Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
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