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"They always end up like this -- their destiny is martyrdom," said Said Muhammad Bakr al-Musawi, one of the clerics on the hearse, noting the ayatollah was also a "said," the title given to descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.

Sheik Saghir, one of the Shiite clerics on the constitutional committee, said fears that Iraq's Shiites would act in the same manner Iranian Shiites did during the 1979 revolution were misplaced.

They also want the influence of clerics on public affairs to be checked.

Soldiers have also received briefings from their commanders and Muslim clerics on the traditions of Ramadan.

He had criticized Saudi Arabia's powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded.

But she insists that her differences with Iran's senior clerics on such matters are a question of interpreting Islamic law.

Comforting as it may be to fixate on radical clerics overseas, one need only turn on the radio, attend some churches, or listen to some elected officials to hear what comes agonizingly close to an American fatwa.

Both he and Mr. de Villepin said they had agreed to exchange information on radical clerics and on the protection of high-profile terrorist targets.

The first fragmentary account of the clerics' statements appeared on Wednesday in a harsh report on a Web site aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Many pushed up small pieces of paper, tattered cloth, stones or even small boulders to be rubbed against the coffin, with one of the many clerics riding on the truck handing back the now blessed object.

In a break with a culture that prides itself on its diplomatic, artistic and gastronomic sophistication, officials and clerics embarked on diatribes of at times crude propaganda.