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In a 2009 email recently declassified and released by Citizens United, longtime Hillary Clinton aide and confidante Huma Abedin told a Clinton Foundation executive that there was an unspecified “disaster” involving the then-Secretary of State. ‘Where are you,” read the subject line of an email from the foundation’s Doug Band. “I’m with her, we had a disaster,” Abedin emailed back. “U?”(continued)

1012 Beginning of al—Hakim's oppressive decrees against Jews and Christians http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/the_truth_about_islamic_crusad.html Fustat on the Nile: the Jewish elite in medieval Egypt - Page 2 Elinoar Bareket - 1999 - 295 pages ... repression and the edicts issued by al-Hakim against the Christians ( starting from about 1007 AD), and against the Jews (evidently beginning in 1012 AD), but also against other Muslims. These acts of oppression reached their climax ... http://books.google.com/books?id=yRhWOPGV_WIC&pg=PA2 Documents of the Jewish pious foundations from the Cairo Geniza - Page 9 Moshe  Gil - Brill Archive, 1976 - 611 pages That the period was one of reconstruction...

From the BNO Newsroom. WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released the following statement on Wednesday on the passing of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. "We were saddened to learn of the passing of His Eminence Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who has played an important role in Iraq’s national history. We offer our condolences to his family and colleagues," Gibbs said.

Sources close to Iraqi Shi'ite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim say the cleric has died. Hakim was being treated for lung cancer at a hospital in Iran, and those close to the man said his health was deteriorating. A family member and an aide to Hakim, speaking on the condition of anonymity, separately told reporters Wednesday that he had suffered a setback. Hakim was known for his close links with Iran, and he led the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite groups. In June, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visited Hakim in Tehran, where the ailing cleric was...

Iraq's most influential Shiite politician said Sunday that the U.S had not backed up claims that Iran is fueling violence here, underscoring a wide gap on the issue between Washington and the Shiite-led Baghdad government. A draft bill to ease curbs on ex-Saddam Hussein loyalists in government services also drew sharp criticism from Shiite lawmakers, opening old wounds at a time when the United States is pressing the Iraqis for compromise for the sake of national unity. The Americans have long accused the Iranians of arming and training Shiite militias, including some linked to the U.S.-backed government of Shiite Prime...

Hakim to join Iraqis on Eid-ul-Fitr Tehran, Oct 6, 2007 IRNA Leader of Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Abdel Aziz al Hakim will join people on Eid-ul-Fitr (Feast of Fast Breaking) as radiotherapy on him has finished. "The fifth week of radiotherapy on the SIIC head has come to an end in Tehran and he will return to Iraq in the next few days," said Hakim's son, Seyed Mohsen, in an interview with IRNA. He said result of medical tests and examinations show that his father has gained full recovery. Hakim has been under medical treatment and hospitalized periodically in Tehran...

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the largest and most powerful Shiite party in Iraq, is in the United States for urgent medical attention, according to U.S. officials and his organization. His party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, refused to discuss Hakim's diagnosis, but U.S. officials said the cleric, 57, has been found to have lung cancer and is in the United States for further tests and to develop a treatment plan. In a reflection of Hakim's stature, President Bush authorized immediate transportation to get Hakim from Iraq to the United States, an administration source said yesterday. Vice President...

A SUSPECTED al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in September 11 and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret US jail for the past year, Spain's El Pais newspaper reported today. Mustafa Setmarian, 48, a Syrian with Spanish citizenship, was captured in Pakistan in October 2005 and is held in a prison operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Pakistani and European security service officials told El Pais. A spokesman for the US embassy in Spain declined to comment on the report. Setmarian's 2005 capture was reported in May of this year after the...

A Shiite Muslim political leader said Friday that rumors were circulating of an impending coup attempt against the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and warned that "we will not allow it." A new government would mean "canceling the constitution, canceling the results of the elections and going back to square one . . . and we will not accept that," he said. Amiri is also a top official in the Badr Organization, the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the leading member of a coalition of Shiite political parties governing...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned pro-Iranian cleric heading the Shiite ticket that won Iraq's national elections, is a longtime ally of Tehran's religious establishment who led an anti-Saddam Hussein militia for two decades from exile. Al-Hakim, who's in his 50s, was born in the holy southern Shiite Iraqi city of Najaf and is the son of the late Grand Ayatollah Mohsen al-Hakim, one of the leading Shiite clerics of the 20th century. A student of Najaf's Hawza al-Ilmiyah, Shiite Islam's centuries old seminary, al-Hakim also came under the tutelage of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr, leader of...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law carried out a suicide bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf that killed a leading Iraqi cleric, according to two senior Kurdish intelligence officials. The attack in August 2003 killed more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, who led Iraq's largest Shia political party. The bombing was carried out with an explosives-laden ambulance driven by Yassin Jarad, the father of al-Zarqawi's second wife, the Kurdish officials said. Jarad had slipped into Iraq several weeks before the bombing from the Jordanian town of Zarqa, where al-Zarqawi was born, said the officials,...

THE Shi’ite Muslim cleric tipped to become prime minister after next Sunday’s election in Iraq has said it will be the duty of the new government to demand the withdrawal of American forces “as soon as possible”. “No people in the world accepts occupation and nor do we accept the continuation of American troops in Iraq,” said Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

Many dead as blast hits Iraqi party Monday 27 December 2004, 14:53 Makka Time, 11:53 GMT The party leader was described as safe and well A bomber has targeted the Baghdad offices of one of Iraq's leading Shia Muslim parties, killing 15 and wounding at least 50 but leaving the party's leader unscathed, officials say. The head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) in Iraq, Abd al-Aziz Hakim, escaped the attack, his son said in Tehran.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber detonated his car Monday at the gate of the home of the leader of Iraq's biggest political party, killing 15 people and injuring dozens, police said. The cleric was unharmed. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the country's most powerful Shiite political group - was in his residence in Baghdad's Jadiriyah district when the attack occurred, said his spokesman, Haitham al-Husseini. The blast, which shook the district and sent a cloud of smoke high above the area, killed 15 people and injured at least...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP)--The al-Qaida terror group was behind last year's assassination of a leading Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim, his brother said in remarks published Saturday. Al-Qaida ``wants to ignite sectarian conflict,'' Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat in an interview. ``We (in the Iraqi Governing Council) have intelligence proving that they are heading in this direction.'' Ayatollah al-Hakim was the leader of the largest Shiite party, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. He was killed by a car bomb as he left a mosque in the city of Najaf on...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S.-backed plan for handing over power to Iraqis is unacceptable as it stands, according to a top Shiite Muslim leader who met with President Bush this week.</p> <p>However, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim said Friday that the Americans, as well as others, are slowly coming around to the need for elections to chose a new legislature rather than have the members named by 18 regional caucuses.</p>

Iraqis attack US date for hand-over By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 27/11/2003) Powerful Shi'ite leaders yesterday criticised America's plan to hand power to an interim Iraqi government next summer. They warned of "real problems" unless it was revised. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, brother of a prominent Shi'ite leader assassinated in August, complained that the plan does not envisage elections until next March, relegates the United Nations to a secondary role and does not protect Iraq's Islamic identity. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim He said the misgivings were shared by Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shi'ite religious leader. Mr Hakim added:...

WHO KILLED MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-HAKIM? By Kathleen Ridolfo A symbolic funeral was held in the holy city of Al-Najaf in Iraq on 2 September in memory of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim. The ayatollah was killed in a car bombing on 29 August as he left the Imam Ali Mosque in Al-Najaf following a noon Friday prayers sermon. Some 80 Iraqis were killed and more than 100 injured in the incident. Al-Hakim's body has yet to be identified, and mourners carried a casket containing only his wristwatch, ring, and pieces of his turban in a three-day procession from Baghdad...

SADDAM JUDGE MURDERED The judge heading judicial committees to investigate former officials of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime in Najaf has been shot dead, it is reported. Muhan Jabr al-Shuwaili, who chairs the Najaf Tribunal and the investigative committees, was kidnapped along with Najaf prosecutor General Aref Aziz, from the judge's house in the city on Monday, the AFP agency quoted Mr Aziz as saying. The two were taken in cars to a desert area five miles from Baghdad and the judge executed, he said. "One of the assailants said 'Saddam has ordered your prosecution.' Then they fired two shots into...

Remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Arlington, Virginia,Saturday, September 27, 2003.(Introduced by Dr. Ali Al-Attar to an audience of 500) Dr. Al-Attar: Today we are honored to have with us a senior member of the Bush Administration, Dr. Wolfowitz, who joins us to honor the memory and vision of Ayatollah Al-Hakim for a free, just, and independent Iraq. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's a privilege and a great personal honor to introduce to you the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. Paul Wolfowitz. [Applause] Wolfowitz: Thank you, Dr. Al-Attar. After so many distinguished speakers have spoken, and with...