Reply #13: The Requiem is just begininning - per George Frideric Handel [View All]

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"Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani has swiftly become one of Iraq's most important figures with his opposition to the U.S. blueprint for transferring power to the Iraqis by July 1. He has drawn tens of thousands of supporters out to protest the American plans, and they obey just as quickly when he asks that they stay home.

"The silver-bearded al-Sistani, 75, disapproves of Iranian-style clerical rule. He left Iran to come to Najaf as a young seminary student more than 50 years ago and rose to prominence in post-Saddam Iraq when he issued a religious edict in June demanding that only delegates chosen in an election be allowed to draft a new Iraqi constitution.

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http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan1/1-2-04-sistani-iranian-citizenship.htm

General Kermit Frog Demwitt, just said `Oh Shit!!