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...Yemeni officials blamed Saudi Arabia for launching about three air strikes targeting a gathering after the funeral of the father of Yemen’s interior minister, Jalal al-Rowaishan, a close ally of former president...
...Reformation movements, such as one that began with the students of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in 18th century Arabia, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the traditional channels through which religious approval...
...In it, Sir Mark is said to write: “I congratulate you on the safe arrival of Abu Abd Allah Sadiq....
...The UK provided intelligence on Abdul Hakim Belhadj, also known as Abu Abd Allah Sadiq, and then despatched an officer to Tripoli to obtain information of “urgent importance” to Britain from him after he...
...At the time, the LIFG was affiliated to al-Qaeda and had a significant number of supporters in Britain, according to security sources....
...Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq who died last week in Tehran, occupied a unique position....
...“The man was the vital artery of the United Iraqi Alliance and the Iraqi government,” said Muayed al-Hakim, a member of the extended family....
...A senior Shia politician, Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, in a speech on Friday praised the “honourable national role” played by the Awakening Councils, but also said they must continue to side with the government...
...Last week, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected the provincial election law as unconstitutional after Iraq’s Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the parliament session that passed it....
...The visit of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, Shia Islamist leader, to the US to check whether he has lung cancer raises the spectacle of disorder in one of Iraq’s strongest parties....
...Also present were Adel Abd al-Mahdi, Shia vice-president, Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s Kurdish President, and Massoud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdistan region, Together, Mr Maliki, Mr Abd al-Mahdi...
...Apr 7 2005: New president, Jalal Talabani, names Shia leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari prime minister....
...Mohsen Hakim is an adviser to Abd al-Aziz Hakim, his father and leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of Iraq’s most influential Shia parties....
...Mr Hakim vies with Moqtada al-Sadr, a radical cleric and militia leader, for the mantle of Iraq’s most powerful Shia politician. Their family feud is generational....
...The meetings with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim were designed to bolster the Maliki government and pull together a group of moderates.”...
...US and Iraqi forces have seized hundreds of Mahdi Army fighters in recent months, including the movement’s Baghdad spokesman, Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji....
...Jalal Talabani , Kurdish president and Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the ruling Shia parliamentary bloc, made the announcement after a 90-minute meeting with the US envoy....
...The proposal was made in March by Zilmay Khalilzad, US ambassador to Iraq, and accepted by Iran once endorsed by Abd al-Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a prominent...
...Mohsen Hakim, 33, son and political advisor of Abd al-Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), reflected frustration among Iraq’s leading Shia party at the speed...
...President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, had announced he wanted parliament to convene by the constitutional deadline of March 12 but Mr Abd al-Mahdi, a Shia and one of two vice-presidents who must approve such...
...Mr Abd al-Mahdi, however, insisted he saw no point in opening negotiations with the predominantly Sunni Arab insurgents, an initiative proposed by President Jalal Talabani....
...In comments that raised alarm in the Sunni community, UIA leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim recently said there was likely to be no compromise on the federal constitution, which Sunni fear will deprive them of...
...He said he was responding to Wednesday’s call for “dialogue” between Tehran and Washington from Abd al-Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a long-term ally of Tehran...
...The supreme leader made clear such talks – earlier proposed by Zilmay Khalilzad, US ambassador in Baghdad, and Abd al-Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the leading...
...Many Kurds were thought to be disappointed with Mr Jaafari’s performance and to prefer Adel Abd al-Mahdi, vice-president, from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri), a rival Shia Islamist...
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