Iraq: Shiite cleric faces warrant over 2003 murder
n a surprise move ahead of weekend elections, Iraq's highest judicial body has renewed an arrest warrant against an anti-US Shiite leader for the murder of a moderate cleric nearly seven years ago, a senior government official and a spokesman for the leader said Tuesday.
Muqtada al-Sadr, who heads one of the major Shiite parties competing against Iraq's Shiite prime minister, is believed to have been living in neighboring Iran for the past two years. He is not thought to be planning to return to Iraq any time soon, although a rumor has been circulating among supporters that he wanted to
