| In the 19th century, Iran and Iraq were roiled by the Babi movement, which asserted that Ali Muhammad Shirazi was the Mahdi or Qa'im. |
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| Men say that a certain religious Mullah has prophesied the immediate second coming of the Mahdi. |
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| His militia, the Army of the Mahdi, is running courts and jailing people in the basements of tenement buildings. |
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| The background to this story is, apparently, that a number of members of the Mahdi Army were arrested on Sunday and tossed in the hoosegow. |
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| Inside, headmistress Ibistam Mahdi cuts a yellow ribbon, and thanks the men through a translator. |
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| He admitted that rumors were circulating that Badr Corps fighters were betraying to the Americans the hiding-places of Mahdi Army officials. |
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| In 909 a leader claiming descent from Isma il proclaims himself the Mahdi and creates a state in North Africa. |
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| The US also reportedly fired tank shells into hotels being used as safe houses by Mahdi Army militiamen. |
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| This is the first report I have seen of Muqtada being considered the Mahdi, and it is possible, though I suspect it is a minority view. |
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| Mr. Mahdi has been quite comprehensive in his presentation. I will only underscore a few more matters and then specifically speak to Indonesia. |
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| Mr. Mahdi, I have seen the blood of innocent Ahmadis in Pakistan against a mosque-a monk, I believe. |
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| These will all come true under the rule of the perfect Man, the last divine source on Earth, Hazrat Mahdi, peace be upon him. |
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| Mahdi chews khat, a semi-narcotic leaf that has wired generations of Muslims from the coast of eastern Africa to Yemen at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| Muqtada al-Sadr, a popular cleric, has threatened to reconstitute his Mahdi Army militia to drive out any remaining Americans. |
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| Young people are turning their backs on sectarianism and violence, the militia are losing support and the Mahdi Army is cooperating. |
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| Adil Abdul Mahdi, the national oil minister, insinuates that the Kurds are selling barrels on the side. |
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| This camp is called Tyr fil Say, one of the sites in south Lebanon where the Mahdi Scouts train. |
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| In 910, Obaïd Alla Al Mahdi entered Kairouan and announced the founding of the Fatimid caliphate in the Maghreb. |
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| As a result, they have tried to target only Mahdi army figures who are deemed to be beyond his control. |
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| So why did the Iranians assist the Mahdi Army militia at a tactical command level against the forces of Maliki in Basra, if they did? |
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| This Mahdi is to appear at a time of severe oppression, unite the Muslims, and bring peace and justice to the world. |
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| The following day, militiamen of Sadr's Mahdi Army attempted to seal off the densely populated suburb with barricades to prevent US forces entering again. |
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| The Safavid state in Iran was founded in 1501 by Shiite tribes who believed that Shah Ismail was divine, and perhaps that he was the herald of the Shiite Mahdi or messiah. |
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| Some Muslims believe this Mahdi, along with the Prophet Jesus, who is also to appear at the end of time, will lead believers to victory over the infidels. |
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| This congress is to be managed independently and guided by a national governance and reconciliation committee headed by former President Ali Mahdi Mohamed. |
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| So declaimed Nuri al-Maliki on March 28th, two days after unexpectedly ordering Iraq's army into battle against the radical Mahdi Army militia in an operation called Charge of the Knights. |
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| In addition, the occupying forces, on 16 February, carried out the targeted killing of Issam Hamza Ali Mansour and Mahdi Satti Yousef Alqani near Nablus. |
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| In 2004, after a number of successful military operations against the Mahdi militias, the US military declared it had successfully vanquished the threat posed by Al Sadr and his followers. |
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| Such a strategy would involve significant risks and would require far more extensive preparation than was involved in the latest, failed attempt to uproot the Al Mahdi army from its bases in the slums of Baghdad and Basra. |
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| In the same year Olivier portrayed the Mahdi, opposite Heston as General Gordon, in the film Khartoum. |
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| Ultimately, however, the Iraqi government's offensive did not succeed in uprooting the Mahdi Army from the region, and occasioned a number of significant setbacks on other fronts. |
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| The recent offensive by Prime Minister Malaki against the Mahdi Army in Basra was hampered by the desertion of over one thousand Iraqi government troops. |
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| Given the nature of the threat, and the changing nature of the United States' posture in Iraq, the options for countering the growing influence of the Al Mahdi army are limited. |
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| The Mahdi militia benefits from significant aid from Iran, which helps finance and equip its main brigades, and has been known to offer specialized training to some of its commando units. |
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| Still, the air support provided by the US Air Force made a significant difference in a number of battles, and played a critical role in convincing Mahdi Army elements to pursue a truce. |
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| Fevzi Aslan further stresses the religious dimension of the Sivas incident by his reference to the Mahdi, providing the incident with chiliastic significance. |
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| Iraqi authorities had said that the leader of the Soldiers of Heaven claimed that he was the Awaited Mahdi, believed by the Shiites to be the duodecimal imam. |
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