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Washington Times
May 5, 2007 Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of angry Shi'ites poured onto the streets of two cities south of the Iraqi capital yesterday to protest what they considered insults by Al Jazeera television against Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The protesters were angered by an Al Jazeera talk show this week in which the presenter questioned the ayatollah's leadership credentials.
Following Friday prayers in the southern cities of Basra and Najaf, Ayatollah al-Sistani's supporters carried banners denouncing the channel and its host nation, the Gulf Arab state of Qatar.
May 5, 2007 Iraq
BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of angry Shi'ites poured onto the streets of two cities south of the Iraqi capital yesterday to protest what they considered insults by Al Jazeera television against Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The protesters were angered by an Al Jazeera talk show this week in which the presenter questioned the ayatollah's leadership credentials.
Following Friday prayers in the southern cities of Basra and Najaf, Ayatollah al-Sistani's supporters carried banners denouncing the channel and its host nation, the Gulf Arab state of Qatar.