The next day, a court, presided over by a conservative cleric, found Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi, Tehran's mayor and a close ally of Mr Khatami's, guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in prison, a large fine and 60 strokes of the lash (this last suspended for four years).
A3 NATIONAL A12-21 Muslim Cleric Found GuiltyIn 'Virginia Jihad' Network In the most significant case involving what prosecutors have dubbed the Virginia jihad network, an American-born Muslim cleric was convicted of inciting followers to wage war against the United States just days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Similarly, when Mr. Nouri, a middle-rank cleric, was found guilty of treason and sent to prison last year, his newspaper was closed and reopened under a new name.
Baloch, who had stirred controversy by posting pictures online of herself with a prominent Muslim cleric, was found dead on Saturday at her family home in the central city of Multan.
She expressed concern that "political correctness," and fear of intruding on Major Hasan's free speech rights, may have interfered with the sharing of information earlier this year, when an F.B.I.-led counterterrorism team examined his e-mail exchanges with Anwar al-Awlaki, a well-known radical cleric, but found nothing amiss.
An Algerian-born Muslim cleric, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, was found guilty of leading the group.
OSLO — A man was wounded when several shots were fired early Monday morning into the Oslo residence of Mullah Krekar, a Kurdish cleric who helped found the militant Islamist group Ansar al-Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2001 while he held refugee status in Norway.
Abu Hamza, the radical Muslim cleric, has been found guilty of supporting terrorism by a New York court.
We travelled to the parish and found the cleric in question (who cannot be named for legal reasons) leading mass.
Audio recordings of some of the cleric's sermons were found in an apartment in Hamburg, Germany, used by some of the September 11 hijackers.
Mr. Al-Amin, who in recent years has been a Muslim cleric in Atlanta, was found guilty on Saturday of murdering Ricky Kinchen, a Fulton County sheriff's deputy who was trying to serve an arrest warrant on him on March 16, 2000.
