IRAQ: SHI'ITE CLERIC, SAYED MUQTADA AL-SADR IN NAJAF SAYS HE REJECTS ATTACKS ON PEACEFUL ORGANISATIONS / DEMONSTRATION IN KERBALA CALLING FOR RELEASE OF DETAINEES.

Record ID: 648560

  • Title: IRAQ: SHI'ITE CLERIC, SAYED MUQTADA AL-SADR IN NAJAF SAYS HE REJECTS ATTACKS ON PEACEFUL ORGANISATIONS / DEMONSTRATION IN KERBALA CALLING FOR RELEASE OF DETAINEES.
  • Date: 31st October 2003
  • Summary: (W5) NAJAF, IRAQ (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/INTERIOR: OF FRIDAY PRAYERS. 0.04 2. SCU: SAYED MUQTADA AL-SADR DELIVERING FRIDAY SERMON. 0.10 3. SCU: SOUNBITE (Arabic) AL-SADR SAYING: "We reject and denounce any sort of attack on peaceful organisations or anything bloody and violent." 0.25 4. VARIOUS: FRIDAY PRAYERS. (4 SHOTS) 1.06 (W5) KERBALA, 160 KM SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, (OCTOBER 31, 2003) (RVN ACCESS ALL) 5. CU: BANNER DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF THE LOCAL COUNCIL FOR FAILING TO RELEASE DETAINEES. 1.11 6. SCU: DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING AND CHANTING. 1.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: NAJAF AND KERBALA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2GTOV4ZGZD37UPL2STM1AQ2SP
  • Story Text: Iraqi Shi'ite cleric, Sayed Muqtada al-Sadr says he
    rejects attacks on any peaceful organisation


    In an apparent reference to Monday's (October 27)
    suicide bomb attacks on the headquarters of the
    International Committee for the Red Cross and three Iraqi
    police stations, Sayed Mouqtada al-Sadr said he rejected
    any attacks on 'peaceful organisations' on Friday (October
    31).

    Speaking to hundreds of his followers gathered at
    Friday prayers, in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf,
    Sadr denounced any sort of violence.

    "We reject and denounce any sort of attack on peaceful
    organisations or anything bloody and violent." Al-Sadr
    said.

    Al-sadr is one of Iraq's top Shi'ite clerics, whose
    calls for parallel Iraqi government and army, have
    triggered angry reactions from the Coalition troops on the
    ground.

    Dozens of Sadr's followers were detained by the
    Coalition forces in Najaf and Kerbala, the country's second
    Shi'ite holy city, over the last few weeks.

    Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Kerbala,
    after Friday prayers, to demand the resignation of the
    local council after it failed to secure the release of
    those detained by the Coalition.





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