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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Here is my translation of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's fatwa or legal ruling issued on Sunday concerning the Israeli attacks on Gaza. . Sistani is the spiritual leader not only of Iraqi Shiites but of many other Shiites in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Lebanon and India. He is explicit in asking his followers to take practical steps to stop the Israeli attacks. Note that the Neoconservatives...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader, has reservations about Iraq's Status of Forces Agreement with the United States, an aide says. An official from the influential Shiite leader's office said Sistani is concerned with the new agreement between U.S. and Iraqi leaders on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, The Washington Post...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader, has reservations about Iraq's Status of Forces Agreement with the United States, an aide says.An official from the influential Shiite leader's office said Sistani is concerned with the new agreement between U.S. and Iraqi leaders on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, The Washington Post said Saturday.The international...
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Newshoggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Tehran this week will likely be this image of his cordial get-together with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (with no flying shoes in sight). The contrasting symbolism of the two visits could hardly be lost on Iraqis or Arabs pondering the real winner of the U.S.-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement negotiations (which Iraqis call the Withdrawal Agreement) or the future of Iraq. ...The erstwhile...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
... to crush Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since June 2007.Iraq's senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, captured the view of the demonstrators when he said: "Expressing condemnation and denunciation for what is going on against our brothers in Gaza and expressing solidarity with them by words only doesn't mean anything in the face of the big tragedy they are facing."Now more than at...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
... by the end of 2011. In fact, the Iraqi cabinet and parliament and notables such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani all wanted a shorter timetable than that. This schedule is the maximum they will put up with. 2. The US military cannot stay in Iraq against the will of the elected government. Those who doubt this principle should look at what happened two decades ago in the Philippines. Or consider...
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Webloggin (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
... area of the world.” Mr. Biden knew better: He warned the president, he said, that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s view of liberty differed from “our view of liberty . . . I think the president thinks there’s a Thomas Jefferson or Madison behind every sand dune waiting to jump up. And there are none.” In an op-ed yesterday , Max Boot lamented how President Bush fell short in the area of foreign...
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Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
... area of the world.” Mr. Biden knew better: He warned the president, he said, that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s view of liberty differed from “our view of liberty . . . I think the president thinks there’s a Thomas Jefferson or Madison behind every sand dune waiting to jump up. And there are none.” In an op-ed yesterday , Max Boot lamented how President Bush fell short in the area of foreign...
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The Progressive Puppy (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... Times reports that in October of 2005, Iraq’s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, issued a fatwa on his website forbidding homosexuality and declaring that gays and lesbians should "be killed in the worst, most severe way." And in January of this year a special U.N. report cited the existence of "religious courts, supervised by clerics, where homosexuals allegedly...
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 -- Iraq's preeminent Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has expressed concern about the country's security agreement with the United States, saying it gives the Americans the upper hand and does not do enough to p
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 -- Iraq's preeminent Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has expressed concern about the country's security agreement with the United States, saying it gives the Americans the upper hand and does not do enough to protect Iraqi sovereignty, an official at his office...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... serious about this kicking-us-out stuff? I think they are. I wrote in July that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and the Shiite religious parties he shepherded into power have intended since 2003 to " use the American military as a contractor of sorts to help cement a Shiite-led government's power, then nudge us aside when the task was more or less complete ." The relative ease with which the...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... mainly on account of respect for the views of the Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Ayatollah Sistani has hinted that an agreement would be possible only if it enjoys majority support, cutting across sectarian fault lines. According to the deal approved by Iraq’s government, U.S. forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30 and will vacate from the entire country...
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The Washington Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The Sunni bloc's 44 votes in the 275-member parliament are insufficient to defeat the security agreement; Shiite and Kurdish parties already claim the simple majority of 138 votes required to approve it. But in accommodating the Sunnis, the ruling coalition is bowing to the wishes of the country's preeminent Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who has said any deal should have...
