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BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The Iraqi government has issued an arrest warrant for the country's most prominent Sunni cleric, Harith al-Dari, state television Iraqiya said.

Sixty died, 76 wounded in an attack in Baghdad BAGHDAD - Sixty people were killed and 76 wounded in an attack with the trapped van Saturday morning close to a very animated market of Sadr City, large district Shiite of Baghdad, according to a new assessment. "the new assessment of the explosion which took place towards 10H00 (06H00 GMT) close to market Al-Oula of Sadr City raises with 60 dead and 76 wounded", declared a source of safety. The attack, clerk at one hour of great multitude, caused enormous destruction around the principal market of the populeux district. It...

Prime minister has said that he will look for the needs of the people in putting his government program, and will take his voice from the voices of the Iraqis. He threatened that he will take revenge from terrorists, condemning killings and displacement events.This came in a meeting with the delegate of Congress yesterday in which he showed that his government will work to allow investments and rebuilding projects, and finding job opportunities for Iraqis to improve their living standers. He added that the government will emphasize on the concept of national unity government to apply constitution and make Iraq...

Hardline Sunni Cleric Arrested in Baghdad By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, have arrested a hardline Sunni cleric and about two dozen others after a raid of his Baghdad mosque uncovered weapons caches along with photographs of recent attacks on American troops, the U.S. military and the Iraqi National Guard said. AP Photo Sheik Mahdi al-Sumaidaei, the head of the Supreme Association for Guidance and Daawa, a conservative Sunni organization, was detained Thursday, along with 25 others, the U.S. military said. The raid took place at the Um al-Tuboul...

There could be as many as 100,000 insurgents in Iraq not including those who provide them with food and shelter, according to Time magazine. Time, quoting Jeffrey White, a former analyst with the Defence Intelligence Agency, says that insurgents tied to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi patrol Haifa Street, a busy Baghdad thoroughfare from where the US embassy lies within mortar range. Time says it has obtained audiocassettes that provide a rare insight into the insurgents' mindset. During sermons and 'seminars', as they are called, leaders of al-Zarqawi's group, Attawhid wal Jihad, exhort their rank and file to slaughter Iraqis cooperating with...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Sunni Muslim cleric was shot dead Saturday after he left a mosque in the Iraqi capital, a spokesman for a religious group said. Sheik Dhamer al-Dhari was walking down a street near his mosque when gunmen opened fire from a car, killing him, according to Sheik Mohammed al-Faidhy, spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars. Al-Dhari was not a prominent member of the association, but his half-brother, Hareth al-Dhari, serves as the organization's secretary-general. Last week, the Association of Muslim Scholars issued a statement saying that "no one in his right mind" would reject elections...