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Iraqi Cleric's Citizenship at Issue (al-Sistani)

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AP Wire

January 26, 2004, 3:39 PM EST

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The newfound influence of Iraq's most prominent Shiite Muslim cleric is raising a sensitive and potentially divisive question: How did someone gain such power even though he's an Iranian?

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.

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So wait a second, we got rid of Saddam, a secular Iraqi for an Iranian Muslim cleric? What's wrong with this picture?

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